Goodie, Adam. "Judgement and Decision Making: Covariation and Who or What Causes it." Presentation, University of Georgia, September 27, 2023.

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Illusory Correlation is an event in which an individual finds a relationship between two objects when in reality there isn't one. For example, a person is given two randomized lists:

List A: bacon, lion, blossoms, boat

List B: eggs, tiger, notebook

If the word "bacon" is chosen from list A, the individual would more than likely expect the word "eggs" to be chosen from list B. It is thought that you see things more often if you believe those two things go together more often than not. It would also be expected that if the word "lion" was randomly chosen from list A, the individual would believe that the word "tiger" would be randomly chosen from list B (Goodie, A. 2023 'Judgement and Decision Making').  

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