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Inside Ockham's razor: A mechanism driving preferences for simpler explanations.

People often prefer simpler explanations, defined as those that posit the presence of fewer causes (e.g., positing the presence of a single cause, Cause A, rather than two causes, Causes B and C, to explain observed effects). Here, we test one hypothesis about the mechanisms underlying this preferen...

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Publicado en:Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 746 - 775
Autores principales: Vrantsidis, Thalia H., Lombrozo, Tania
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2025
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United States
Manipulative behavior
Decision making
Problem solving
Achievement tests
Judgment (Psychology)
Descriptive statistics
Mathematical models
Comparative studies
Theory
Critical thinking
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