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SUBMITTER: Tobias-Webb J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5399809 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tobias-Webb Juliette J Limbrick-Oldfield Eve H EH Gillan Claire M CM Moore James W JW Aitken Michael R F MR Clark Luke L
Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) 20160720 8
Illusory control refers to an effect in games of chance where features associated with skilful situations increase expectancies of success. Past work has operationalized illusory control in terms of subjective ratings or behaviour, with limited consideration of the relationship between these definitions, or the broader construct of agency. This study used a novel card-guessing task in 78 participants to investigate the relationship between subjective and behavioural illusory control. We compared ...[more]