Excessive teleological thinking is driven by aberrant associations and not by failure of reasoning
Ongchoco J, Castiello S, Corlett P. Excessive teleological thinking is driven by aberrant associations and not by failure of reasoning. IScience 2023, 26: 107643. PMID: 37705957, PMCID: PMC10495659, DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107643.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAssociative learningTeleological thinkingCausal learning taskDelusion-like ideasFailure of reasoningCausal learningLearning taskLearningThinkingPrediction errorFundamental distinctionAberrant associationComputational modelingTeleological tendencyTaskReasoningTendencyDifferent instancesMeaningNew understandingObjectsDistinctionRelationshipEvents