A debiasing intervention to reduce the causality bias in undergraduates: the role of a bias induction phase

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dc.contributor.authorMartínez Pereña, Naroa
dc.contributor.authorRodríguez Ferreiro, Javier
dc.contributor.authorBarberia Fernández, Itxaso
dc.contributor.authorMatute, Helena
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-19T15:49:15Z
dc.date.available2025-06-19T15:49:15Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-14
dc.date.updated2025-06-19T15:49:15Z
dc.description.abstractThe causality bias, or causal illusion, occurs when people believe that there is a causal relationship between events that are actually uncorrelated. This bias is associated with many problems in everyday life, including pseudoscience, stereotypes, prejudices, and ideological extremism. Some evidence-based educational interventions have been developed to reduce causal illusions. To the best of our knowledge, these interventions have included a bias induction phase prior to the training phase, but the role of this bias induction phase has not yet been investigated. The aim of the present research was to examine it. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups (induction + training, training, and control, as a function of the phases they received before assessment). We evaluated their causal illusion using a standard contingency judgment task. In a null contingency scenario, the causal illusion was reduced in the training and induction-training groups as compared to the control group, suggesting that the intervention was effective regardless of whether or not the induction phase was included. In addition, in a positive contingency scenario, the induction + training group generated lower causal judgments than the control group, indicating that sometimes the induction phase may produce an increase in general skepticism. The raw data of this experiment are available at the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/k9nes/.en
dc.description.sponsorshipSupport for this research was provided by Grants PID2021-126320NB-I00 (AEI/FEDER, EU) and (PID2019-106102 GB-I00 / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033), from Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Spanish Government awarded to HM and JRF, respectively, and by Grant IT1696-22 from the Basque Government, awarded to HMen
dc.identifier.citationMartínez, N., Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J., Barberia, I., & Matute, H. (2023). A debiasing intervention to reduce the causality bias in undergraduates: the role of a bias induction phase. Current Psychology, 42(36), 32456-32468. https://doi.org/10.1007/S12144-022-04197-2
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/S12144-022-04197-2
dc.identifier.eissn1936-4733
dc.identifier.issn1046-1310
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/3109
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2022
dc.subject.otherCausality bias
dc.subject.otherCognitive bias
dc.subject.otherDebiasing
dc.subject.otherEducational intervention
dc.subject.otherIllusion of causality
dc.titleA debiasing intervention to reduce the causality bias in undergraduates: the role of a bias induction phaseen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.endPage32468
oaire.citation.issue36
oaire.citation.startPage32456
oaire.citation.titleCurrent Psychology
oaire.citation.volume42
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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