{"id":320,"date":"2023-10-15T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2023-11-24T20:36:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T20:36:33","slug":"illusory-correlation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/15\/illusory-correlation\/","title":{"rendered":"Illusory Correlation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>By Brad Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Illusory correlation is an important concept in psychology. \u00a0It is<br>important to define illusory correlation. \u00a0What is an illusory<br>correlation? \u00a0Below is a definition of illusory correlation.<br><br><strong>Illusory Correlation Definition<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>An illusory correlation is a belief that two things are associated<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>when there is no actual association.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>I<strong>llusory Correlation Examples<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>There are a number of possible examples of an illusory correlation. \u00a0<br>Below are two illusory correlation examples:<br><br>1. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A person catches many fish in one place at a lake. \u00a0After that day,<br>the person believes that the place where he or she caught many fish is a place where there are more fish than at other places at the lake. \u00a0However, it is possible that it is actually just a chance event.<br><br>2. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On a vacation, a person travels to a city that she or he had not<br>visited before and a few people there are rude to the person. \u00a0The<br>person concludes that the people in this city are generally ruder than people in many other cities. \u00a0However, this may just reflect random events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brad Bell Illusory correlation is an important concept in psychology. \u00a0It isimportant to define illusory correlation. \u00a0What is an illusorycorrelation? \u00a0Below is a definition of illusory correlation. Illusory Correlation DefinitionAn illusory correlation is a belief that two things are associatedwhen there is no actual association.Illusory Correlation ExamplesThere are a number of possible examples of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/15\/illusory-correlation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Illusory Correlation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}