Everyday magical powers: The role of apparent mental causation in the overestimation of personal influence
Everyday magical powers: The role of apparent mental causation in the overestimation of personal influence
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.91.2.218
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发表时间：
2006-08-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Rodriguez, Sylvia
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作者：
Pronin, Emily;Wegner, Daniel M.;Rodriguez, Sylvia
这些研究调查了在事件发生之前，人们是否会因为有了与之相关的想法而推断出是他们导致了事件的发生即使这种因果关系看起来很神奇。在研究1中，人们认为他们通过巫毒巫术伤害了另一个人。这些看法更可能在那些首先被诱导对受害者怀有邪恶想法的人中出现。在研究2中，如果一个同龄人的篮球投篮表现的观众首先产生了与成功相一致的积极的可视化，他们更有可能感知到他们影响了他的成功。了解这些观众的可视化的观察者对观众的影响力做出了类似的归因。最后，其他研究表明，即使思考者认为思考的结果是不想要的，甚至在现场环境中，相关结果是作为现场体育比赛的一部分发生的，这些结果也会发生。
These studies examined whether having thoughts related to an event before it occurs leads people to infer that they caused the event-even when such causation might otherwise seem magical. In Study 1, people perceived that they had harmed another person via a voodoo hex. These perceptions were more likely among those who had first been induced to harbor evil thoughts about their victim. In Study 2, spectators of a peer's basketball-shooting performance were more likely to perceive that they had influenced his success if they had first generated positive visualizations consistent with that success. Observers privy to those spectators' visualizations made similar attributions about the spectators' influence. Finally, additional studies suggested that these results occur even when the thought-about outcome is viewed as unwanted by the thinker and even in field settings where the relevant outcome is occurring as part of a live athletic competition.