I argue that psychologists interested in human causal judgment should understand and adopt a representation of causalmechanisms by directed graphs that encode conditional independence (screening off) relations. I illustrate the benefits of that representation, now widely used in computer science and increasingly in statistics, by (i) showing that a dispute in psychology between ‘mechanist’ and ‘associationist’ psychological theories of causation rests on a false and confused dichotomy; (ii) showing that a recent, much-cited experiment, purporting to show that human subjects, incorrectly let large causes ‘overshadow’ small causes, misrepresents the most likely, and warranted, causal explanation available to the subjects, in the light of whic...
Abstract. Humans often attribute the things that happen to one or another actual cause. In this chap...
The two fields of machine learning and graphical causality arose and are developed separately. Howev...
Finding causes is a central goal in psychological research. In this paper, I argue that the search f...
Much of human cognition and activity depends on causal beliefs and reasoning. In psychological resea...
Much of human cognition and activity depends on causal beliefs and reasoning. In psychological resea...
The rationality of human causal judgments has been the focus of a great deal of recent research. We ...
How humans infer causation from covariation has been the subject of a vigorous debate, most recently...
The last forty years have seen an explosion of research directed at causation and causal inference. ...
Finding causes is a central goal in psychological research. In this paper, I argue based on the inte...
Causal models are representations of causal structures and processes in the world. In this thesis tw...
Understanding causation is complex, especially where it involves ‘the person’. Advances in physiolog...
ABSTRACT—Two competing psychological approaches to causal learningmake different predictions regardi...
Using a standard counterexample to probabilistic theories of causation as an illustration, this chap...
The power PC theory postulates a normative procedure for making causal inferences from contingency i...
When scientists are trying to uncover the causes of a given outcome, they often make use of statisti...
Abstract. Humans often attribute the things that happen to one or another actual cause. In this chap...
The two fields of machine learning and graphical causality arose and are developed separately. Howev...
Finding causes is a central goal in psychological research. In this paper, I argue that the search f...
Much of human cognition and activity depends on causal beliefs and reasoning. In psychological resea...
Much of human cognition and activity depends on causal beliefs and reasoning. In psychological resea...
The rationality of human causal judgments has been the focus of a great deal of recent research. We ...
How humans infer causation from covariation has been the subject of a vigorous debate, most recently...
The last forty years have seen an explosion of research directed at causation and causal inference. ...
Finding causes is a central goal in psychological research. In this paper, I argue based on the inte...
Causal models are representations of causal structures and processes in the world. In this thesis tw...
Understanding causation is complex, especially where it involves ‘the person’. Advances in physiolog...
ABSTRACT—Two competing psychological approaches to causal learningmake different predictions regardi...
Using a standard counterexample to probabilistic theories of causation as an illustration, this chap...
The power PC theory postulates a normative procedure for making causal inferences from contingency i...
When scientists are trying to uncover the causes of a given outcome, they often make use of statisti...
Abstract. Humans often attribute the things that happen to one or another actual cause. In this chap...
The two fields of machine learning and graphical causality arose and are developed separately. Howev...
Finding causes is a central goal in psychological research. In this paper, I argue that the search f...