History
"Illusory correlation" was originally coined by Chapman and Chapman (1967) to describe people's tendencies to overestimate relationships between two groups when distinctive and unusual information is presented. The concept was used to question claims about objective knowledge in clinical psychology through the Chapmans' refutation of many clinicians' widely-used Wheeler signs for homosexuality in Rorschach tests.
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