People’s explanatory preferences for scientific phenomena

Abstract Previous work has found that people are drawn to explanations of psychological phenomena when these explanations contain neuroscience information, even when that information is irrelevant. This preference may be due to a general preference for reductive explanations; however, prior work has...

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Main Authors: Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Emily J. Hopkins, Jordan C. V. Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-11-01
Series:Cognitive Research
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41235-018-0135-2