Attentional processes in stereotype formation: a common model for category accentuation and illusory correlationStereotype formation may be based on the exaggeration of real group differences (category accentuation) or the misperception of group differences that do not exist (illusory correlation)....
Cognitive determinants of infra-humanization: the role of illusory correlation and attentional processes... My research sought to fill this gap in the literature by suggesting that out-group infra-humanization can be conceived as an illusory correlation that people create between groups which represent (at least in one’s own experience) the majority and humanness, which is a quality unique to and shared by...
The moral foundations of illusory correlation.Previous research has studied the relationship between political ideology and cognitive biases, such as the tendency of conservatives to form stronger illusory correlations between negative infrequent behaviors and minority groups....
Biases in judgments of interevent relations and illusory correlationIllusory correlation is a phenomenon that people find relationship between two social events even if there is no real correlation....
