Effects of experience on perception of causality.
- 1 January 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 53 (2) , 89-93
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0048506
Abstract
Impressions of causality were obtained when a bridge was made to collapse, with variable delays between removal of a post and the fall of a bar. Zero delay with no visible gap between post and bar produced striking impressions of causality. With delays or gaps, imaginary completion behavior accompanied the causal impressions. Spatial gaps weakened the impressions and decreased their frequency, but did not affect the maximum permissible delay. This temporal threshold increased after a series of trials with long delays and decreased after a series with zero delay.Keywords
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