You conduct a Pearson Product-Moment correlation test to see if two variables are related to each other. Even though the test is significant, you suspect that there actually isn't a real relationship between X and Y, and that they only seem to be related because of their relationship to another variable Z. This is called:
bi-directionality
the third-variable problem
reverse-causality
a causal effect
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