0 a relationship, link, etc. between two things in which one causes the other:
Is there a causal relationship between violence on television and violent behaviour?
Instead, the person seeking self-insight must employ a priori causal theories to account for his or her own psychological operations.
For not everything that is a causal antecedent of an experience is represented in that experience.
Facts that have such consequences are, so to speak, ' embedded ' in the world's past, as part of the causal processes leading up to the present.
The symbolic relation is primary; it cannot be reduced to the presence of things, or to a causal relation.
Their theoretical model outlines a causal link between various cognitive and social processes and the resulting behaviour.
Comparing personal trajectories and drawing causal inferences from longitudinal data.
Patients' strong performance in word/picture matching tasks even in "impaired" categories may provide evidence for the causal link hypothesis.
To be sure, virtually any work of history or social science invokes some species of causal argument.