Heads I win, tails it's chance: The illusion of control as a function of the sequence of outcomes in a purely chance task.

The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations.

Theodore M. Newcomb, Fritz Heider · American Sociological Review · 1958 · 12K citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +14

The illusion of control.

Ellen J. Langer · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1975 · 3.7K citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +7

Genesis of popular but erroneous psychodiagnostic observations.

Loren J. Chapman, Jean P. Chapman · Journal of Abnormal Psychology · 1967 · 857 citations

Social Sciences, Psychiatry, Psychology +12

Judgment of contingency between responses and outcomes.

Herbert M. Jenkins, William C. Ward · The Psychological Monographs · 1965 · 586 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +5

The function of the illusions of control and freedom.

Herbert M. Lefcourt · American Psychologist · 1973 · 346 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +10