Social scientists have traditionally argued that whiteness—the attribute of being recognized
and treated as a White person in society—is powerful because it is invisible. On this view …

“I take the view that this lack [of subversive activity] is the most ominous sign in our whole
situation. It convinces me more than perhaps any other factor that the sabotage we are to …

Bayesian networks are graphical structures for representing the probabilistic relationships
among a large number of variables and doing probabilistic inference with those variables …

Because causal relations are neither observable nor deducible, they must be induced from
observable events. The 2 dominant approaches to the psychology of causal induction—the …

Past research has focused primarily on second language (L2) acquisition as a tool for
promoting intercultural communication. The social context model, for example, stresses the …

Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action
requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect …

Causal knowledge plays a crucial role in human thought, but the nature of causal
representation and inference remains a puzzle. Can human causal inference be captured by …

Three studies investigated whether young children make accurate causal inferences on the
basis of patterns of variation and covariation. Children were presented with a new causal …

What makes some explanations better than others? This paper explores the roles of
simplicity and probability in evaluating competing causal explanations. Four experiments …

Lord Chesterfield gave his son, Philip, a great deal of advice--most of it having to do with
manipulating other people to one's own ends--and that advice has survived for nearly 3 …