Dr Julie Chow
Research Associate

Dr Julie Chow

Science
School of Psychology

My research examines how people learn about cause and effect relationships, and how differences in what is inferred when presented with identical information may result in disparate beliefs. This is pertinent when determining how people come to form strong pseudoscientific beliefs about ineffective treatments. Causal illusions are thought to be important for understanding the development of pseudoscientific beliefs, and importantly provides insight into how people learn in a variable environment.

  • Journal articles | 2023
    Chow JYL; Lee JC; Lovibond PF, 2023, 'Inhibitory Learning with Bidirectional Outcomes: Prevention Learning or Causal Learning in the Opposite Direction?', Journal of Cognition, 6, pp. 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.266
    Journal articles | 2023
    Kendig MD; Chow JYL; Martire SI; Rooney KB; Boakes RA, 2023, 'Switching from Sugar- to Artificially-Sweetened Beverages: A 12-Week Trial', Nutrients, 15, pp. 2191 - 2191, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15092191
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Retardation of acquisition after conditioned inhibition and latent inhibition training in human causal learning', Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition, 49, pp. 75 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000351
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Inhibitory Summation as a Form of Generalization', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, pp. 86 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000320
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Reversal of Inhibition by No-Modulation Training but Not by Extinction in Human Causal Learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, pp. 336 - 348, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000328
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Pseudoscientific health beliefs and the perceived frequency of causal relationships', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, pp. 11196 - 11196, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111196
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Causal illusions in the classroom: how the distribution of student outcomes can promote false instructional beliefs', Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, pp. 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00237-2
    Journal articles | 2019
    Chow JYL; Colagiuri B; Livesey EJ, 2019, 'Bridging the divide between causal illusions in the laboratory and the real world: the effects of outcome density with a variable continuous outcome', Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4, pp. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-018-0149-9
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Motivation to run measured by progressive ratio tests: Failure to support the addiction hypothesis for rats', Learning and Behavior, 47, pp. 131 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-018-0348-8
  • Conference Papers | 2018
    2018, 'Illusory causation and outcome density effects with a continuous and variable outcome', in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018, pp. 1494 - 1499