{"id":7441,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/causality_-as_a_psychological_phenomenon\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:54","slug":"causality_-as_a_psychological_phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/causality_-as_a_psychological_phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Causality (as a psychological phenomenon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perception of cause-effect relationships among objects. &nbsp;The roots of this interpretation of causality lie with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/hume\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/hume\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Hume <\/a>(1711-1776) who argued that causality is not a logical relationship waiting to be discovered, but rather is based on inferences derived from experiencing a succession of events. &nbsp;With this contention, he shifted the study of causality from logic to psychology.<\/p>\n<p>See Causality (in philosophy)<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perception of cause-effect relationships among objects. &nbsp;The roots of this interpretation of causality lie with David Hume (1711-1776) who argued that causality is not a logical relationship waiting to be discovered, but rather is based on inferences derived from experiencing a succession of events. &nbsp;With this contention, he shifted the study of causality from logic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/causality_-as_a_psychological_phenomenon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Causality (as a psychological phenomenon)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}