Publications (44) FERNANDO BLANCO BREGÓN publications

2024

  1. A large-scale study and six-month follow-up of an intervention to reduce causal illusions in high school students

    Royal Society Open Science, Vol. 11, Núm. 8

  2. Which learning techniques supported by cognitive research do students use at secondary school? Prevalence and associations with students’ beliefs and achievement

    Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, Vol. 9, Núm. 1

  3. É máis crible a prensa científica ca o telediario?

    Ciencia parece pero non é (Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria), pp. 55-67

2023

  1. Expensive seems better: The price of a non-effective drug modulates its perceived efficacy

    Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, Vol. 8, Núm. 1

  2. I want to believe: Prior beliefs influence judgments about the effectiveness of both alternative and scientific medicine

    Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 18, Núm. 1

  3. Recent advances in the study of the illusion of causality: theory, methods, and practical implications

    Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental, Vol. 44, Núm. 2

  4. Scarcity affects cognitive biases: The case of the illusion of causality

    Acta Psychologica, Vol. 239

2022

  1. Causality bias

    Cognitive Illusions: Intriguing Phenomena in Thinking, Judgment, and Memory: Third edition (Taylor and Francis), pp. 108-123

  2. Editorial: Understanding and Overcoming Biases in Judgment and Decision-Making With Real-Life Consequences

    Frontiers in Psychology

2021

  1. The more, the merrier: Treatment frequency influences effectiveness perception and further treatment choice

    Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Vol. 28, Núm. 2, pp. 665-675

  2. The tendency to stop collecting information is linked to illusions of causality

    Scientific Reports, Vol. 11, Núm. 1

2020

  1. Are the symptoms really remitting? How the subjective interpretation of outcomes can produce an illusion of causality

    Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 15, Núm. 4, pp. 572-585

  2. Diseases that resolve spontaneously can increase the belief that ineffective treatments work

    Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 255

  3. When Success Is Not Enough: The Symptom Base-Rate Can Influence Judgments of Effectiveness of a Successful Treatment

    Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 11

2019

  1. Base-rate expectations modulate the causal illusion

    PLoS ONE, Vol. 14, Núm. 3

  2. Learning Mechanisms Underlying Accurate and Biased Contingency Judgments

    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, Vol. 45, Núm. 4, pp. 373-389

2018

  1. Bayesian methods for addressing long-standing problems in associative learning: The case of PREE

    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 71, Núm. 9, pp. 1844-1859

  2. Causal illusions in the service of political attitudes in Spain and the United Kingdom

    Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 9, Núm. JUN

  3. Reduced selective learning in patients with fibromyalgia vs healthy controls

    Pain, Vol. 159, Núm. 7, pp. 1268-1276

  4. The illusion of causality: A cognitive bias underlying pseudoscience

    Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy against Science (The MIT Press), pp. 45-76