Making causal inferences about illness, compared to making causal inferences about mechanical breakdown and reading causally unconnected sentences, activates a semantic brain network implicated in the ...

An elaborate theory of predictions of a causal hypothesis consists of several falsifiable statements derived from the causal hypothesis. Statistical tests for the various pieces of the elaborate ...

Events that occur close to one another in time and space are sometimes "bound" together and we perceive them as meaningful episodes, a phenomenon that philosophers and psychological scientists call ...

A sample of 394 married couples is employed to test the possibility of an association between marital satisfaction and personal (attitudinal) anomie. Mertonian anomie theory is employed to generate an ...

There's no scientific evidence that the gut microbiome causes autism, a group of scientists argue in an opinion paper ...