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I'm editing this article as part of my History & Systems of Psychology course at Shenandoah University, in conjunction with the APS Wikipedia Initiative. Sources I will be using are listed below: Matute, H. A. (2011). Illusions of causality at the heart of pseudoscience. British Journal Of Psychology, 102(3), 392-405. Presson, P. A. (1996). Illusion of control: A meta-analytic review. Journal Of Social Behavior & Personality, 11(3), 493-510. Wohl, M. E. (2009). Illusion of control by proxy: Placing one's fate in the hands of another. British Journal Of Social Psychology, 48(1), 183-200. --JBelkin24 (talk) 00:49, 21 February 2013 (UTC)JBelkin24[reply]

I'm missing the source for this: "Kelley then argued that people’s failure to detect noncontingencies may result in their attributing uncontrollable outcomes to personal causes." niccienic, 24 january 2018

Illusions

Manipulate people or someone with illusions to deceive them for example a poor men tell a rich men he can multiply his money but want his money. Mabuya2007 (talk) 17:42, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]