Publications (46) FERNANDO BLANCO BREGÓN publications

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2025

  1. The combined effect of patient classification systems and availability of resources can bias the judgments of treatment effectiveness

    Scientific Reports, Vol. 15, Núm. 1

  2. Visualizing one's Best Possible Self increases positive future expectancies, but does not boost selective learning in fibromyalgia

    Behaviour Research and Therapy, Vol. 190

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