Deconstructing the seductive allure of neuroscience explanations
Previous work showed that people find explanations more satisfying when they contain irrelevant neuroscience information. The current studies investigate why this effect happens. In Study 1 (N=322), subjects judged psychology explanations that did or did not contain irrelevant neuroscience informati...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15731a/jdm15731a.pdf |