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Contiguity and the outcome density bias in action-outcome contingency judgements.
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In cause-outcome contingency judgement tasks, judgements often reflect the actual contingency but are also influenced by the overall probability of the outcome, P(O). Action-outcome instrumental learning tasks can foster a pattern in which judgements of positive contingencies become less positive as P(O) increases. Variable contiguity between the action and the outcome may produce this bias. Experiment 1 recorded judgements of positive contingencies that were largely uninfluenced by P(O) usin...
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- 10.1080/02724990444000104
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- Journal:
- Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. B, Comparative and physiological psychology
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 177-192
- Publication date:
- 2005-04-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1464-1321
- ISSN:
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0272-4995
- Source identifiers:
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379134
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- English
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pubs:379134
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- pubs:379134
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