Evan J Livesey
Biographic Data
| ID | 7948147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evan J Livesey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Livesey |
| SIGNATURE | LIVESEY E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5731-7098 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Instruction on the Scientific Method Provides (Some) Protection Against Illusions of Causality
People tend to overestimate the efficacy of an ineffective treatment when they experience the treatment and its supposed outcome co-occurring frequently. This is referred to as the outcome density effect. Here, we attempted to improve the accuracy of participants’ assessments of an ineffective treatment by instructing them about the scientific practice of comparing treatment effects against a relevant base-rate, i.e., when no treatment is deliver…
Planning on Autopilot? Associative Contributions to Proactive Control
Hearing hooves, thinking zebras
Outcome unpredictability affects outcome-specific motivation to learn
Outcome predictability effects in associative learning paradigms describe better learning about outcomes with a history of greater predictability in a similar but unrelated task compared with outcomes with a history of unpredictability. Inspired by the similarities between this phenomenon and the effect of uncontrollability in learned helplessness paradigms, here, we investigate whether learning about unpredictability decreases outcome-specific m…
Pseudoscientific Health Beliefs and the Perceived Frequency of Causal Relationships
Beliefs about cause and effect, including health beliefs, are thought to be related to the frequency of the target outcome (e.g., health recovery) occurring when the putative cause is present and when it is absent (treatment administered vs. no treatment); this is known as contingency learning . However, it is unclear whether unvalidated health beliefs, where there is no evidence of cause-effect contingency, are also influenced by the subjective …
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Hearing hooves, thinking zebras
Outcome unpredictability affects outcome-specific motivation to learn
Outcome predictability effects in associative learning paradigms describe better learning about outcomes with a history of greater predictability in a similar but unrelated task compared with outcomes with a history of unpredictability. Inspired by the similarities between this phenomenon and the effect of uncontrollability in learned helplessness paradigms, here, we investigate whether learning about unpredictability decreases outcome-specific m…
Pseudoscientific Health Beliefs and the Perceived Frequency of Causal Relationships
Beliefs about cause and effect, including health beliefs, are thought to be related to the frequency of the target outcome (e.g., health recovery) occurring when the putative cause is present and when it is absent (treatment administered vs. no treatment); this is known as contingency learning . However, it is unclear whether unvalidated health beliefs, where there is no evidence of cause-effect contingency, are also influenced by the subjective …
Planning on Autopilot? Associative Contributions to Proactive Control
Instruction on the Scientific Method Provides (Some) Protection Against Illusions of Causality
People tend to overestimate the efficacy of an ineffective treatment when they experience the treatment and its supposed outcome co-occurring frequently. This is referred to as the outcome density effect. Here, we attempted to improve the accuracy of participants’ assessments of an ineffective treatment by instructing them about the scientific practice of comparing treatment effects against a relevant base-rate, i.e., when no treatment is deliver…
Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (2 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (2 works) · Alternative medicine (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)