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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2018-11-01
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Series: | Cognitive Research |
Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41235-018-0135-2 |