Shahreen Salim

Belief Miner: A Methodology for Discovering Causal Beliefs and Causal Illusions from General Populations

Causal belief is a cognitive practice that humans apply everyday to reason about cause and effect relations between factors, phenomena, or events. Like optical illusions, humans are prone to drawing causal relations between events that are only coincidental (i.e., causal illusions). Researchers in domains such as cogn…