An investigation concluded that illusions produced by the lack of visual cues during a circling approach over unlighted terrain at night to a runway not equipped with approach lights or other visual approach aids, caused the crash.

This illusion can cause a misperception that such a light is on a collision course with the aircraft.

The illusion of validity may be caused in part by confirmation bias and/or the representativeness heuristic and could in turn cause the overconfidence effect.

The illusion causes him to reject having his mental blocks removed and causes him to ignore his feelings for Noriko and avoid her.

Although the judges were somewhat less susceptible to two of the five, these psychological illusions caused them to err again and again.

This illusion caused ancients to falsely believe in a geocentric universe rather than the currently accepted heliocentric view.

As she tries to flee them, Julia ends up nearly being consumed by them but narrowly manages to escape and her illusions cause her to harm innocent people.

An illusion involving Anderson's dispensing of various alcoholic beverages to the audience caused a legal controversy regarding temperance in that city.

Social psychologist Daniel Wegner discusses how an "illusion of control" may cause people to take credit for events that they did not cause.

Studies have found that the direction of this relationship is that positive illusions cause positive mood states.