Making decisions often requires quick and intuitive assessments of the likelihood of unobserved events. People make such judgments with little effort, quickly and systematically. The …
This thesis introduces mechanism domains as a cognitive representation underlying causal reasoning. It has been observed that people believe they understand causal workings in more …
Previous research has questioned the causal Bayes net formalism reporting the violation of the Markov principle which lies at the heart of the causal Bayes …
Causal reasoning is central to people's thinking about the world and how to manipulate it (Sloman, 2005). Surprisingly, our knowledge about causal reasoning has had …