Subjective correlation judgments that exaggerate or distort the objectively presented contingency between two variables in a series of stimulus observations are usually referred to as illusory correlations (IC). An empirical review reveals many different variants of ICs in diverse paradigms. Two...

The strength of decision routines was manipulated within a computer controlled micro-world simulation which required that participants make recurrent acquisition and disposal decisions. One week after having learned weak or strong routines, participants were confronted with changes in this...

According to sampling theories of attitude formation, evaluative learning depends on the sampling in the environment. We investigated teachers’ student evaluations in a simulated school class. Two experiments were designed to test distinct implications of experience-sampling models. While the...