Perceived causality as a cue to temporal distance
Perceived causality as a cue to temporal distance
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01594.x
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发表时间：
2005-09-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Hastie, R
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作者：
Faro, D;Leclerc, F;Hastie, R
报告的三个实验表明，对事件之间经过时间的判断取决于事件之间感知的因果关系。参与者判断成对的因果关系相关的事件发生在时间上比成对的因果关系无关的事件，由相同的实际时间间隔分开更接近。时间与时间的关系首先表现为对历史事件的时间判断。因果关系相关的事件被判定为在时间上比因果关系无关的事件更接近。在随后的两个实验中，通过提供专家信息和要求参与者自己想象待判断事件之间的因果关系来操纵感知因果关系。再次，获得了感知因果关系的实质性和可靠的效果。我们的研究结果表明，人们使用感知因果关系的强度作为线索来推断时间距离。
The three experiments reported show that judgments of elapsed time between events depend on perceived causal relations between the events. Participants judged pairs of causally related events to occur closer together in time than pairs of causally unrelated events that were separated by the same actual time interval. The causality-time relationship was first demonstrated for time judgments about historical events. Causally related events were judged to be significantly closer together in time than causally unrelated events. In two subsequent experiments, perceived causality was manipulated by providing expert information and by asking the participants themselves to imagine causal relationships between the to-be-judged events. Again, substantial and reliable effects of perceived causality were obtained. Our results suggest that people use strength of perceived causality as a cue to infer temporal distance.