Spontaneous causal inferences

Ran R. Hassin; John A. Bargh; James S. Uleman

doi:10.1016/S0022-1031(02)00016-1

Spontaneous causal inferences

Ran R. Hassin, John A. Bargh, James S. Uleman

Psychology

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Three studies examine the hypothesis that people spontaneously (i.e., unintentionally and without awareness of doing so) infer causes (the Spontaneous Causal Inference, or SCI, hypothesis). Using a cued-recall paradigm, Study 1 examines whether SCIs occur and Study 2 allows for a comparison between implicitly inferred and explicitly mentioned causes. Study 3 examines whether SCIs can be fully explained in terms of spreading activation to general, abstract schemes. It is suggested that STIs (e.g., Winter & Uleman, 1984), and spontaneous predicting inferences (e.g., McKoon & Ratclif, 1986a, 1986b), may be better understood in their relation to SCIs.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	515-522
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Volume	38
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1031(02)00016-1
State	Published - Sep 2002

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