ABSTRACT
In recent years an area of research that has received substantial interest is how individuals relatively naive to a particular subject matter domain such as physics perform tasks in that domain. Such work has generally indicated that naive individuals have intuitive concepts related to phenomena of the domain, but the concepts are sometimes in conflict with the explanation for the particular phenomenon found in the domain (Voss et a/., 1995). Such research, however, has been conducted primarily in the sciences and mathematics with little work pursued in domains such as history. The present research is thus concerned with naive concepts of history, the focus of this paper being upon naive perceptions of causality in history.
