TY - GEN
T1 - A rational model of causal induction with continuous causes
AU - Pacer, Michael D.
AU - Griffiths, Thomas L.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Rational models of causal induction have been successful in accounting for people's judgments about causal relationships. However, these models have focused on explaining inferences from discrete data of the kind that can be summarized in a 2×2 contingency table. This severely limits the scope of these models, since the world often provides non-binary data. We develop a new rational model of causal induction using continuous dimensions, which aims to diminish the gap between empirical and theoretical approaches and real-world causal induction. This model successfully predicts human judgments from previous studies better than models of discrete causal inference, and outperforms several other plausible models of causal induction with continuous causes in accounting for people's inferences in a new experiment.
AB - Rational models of causal induction have been successful in accounting for people's judgments about causal relationships. However, these models have focused on explaining inferences from discrete data of the kind that can be summarized in a 2×2 contingency table. This severely limits the scope of these models, since the world often provides non-binary data. We develop a new rational model of causal induction using continuous dimensions, which aims to diminish the gap between empirical and theoretical approaches and real-world causal induction. This model successfully predicts human judgments from previous studies better than models of discrete causal inference, and outperforms several other plausible models of causal induction with continuous causes in accounting for people's inferences in a new experiment.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85162373311
SN - 9781618395993
T3 - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24: 25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2011, NIPS 2011
BT - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24
PB - Neural Information Processing Systems
T2 - 25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2011, NIPS 2011
Y2 - 12 December 2011 through 14 December 2011
ER -