Harry Potter and the sorcerer's scope: latent scope biases in explanatory reasoning.

What makes a good explanation? We examine the function of latent scope, i.e., the number of unobserved phenomena that an explanation can account for. We show that individuals prefer narrow latent scope explanations-those that account for fewer unobserved effects-to broader explanations. In Experimen...

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Publicado en:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 527 - 536
Autores principales:	Khemlani, Sangeet, Sussman, Abigail, Oppenheimer, Daniel
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Nature Apr2011
Materias:	Analysis of variance Cognition Decision making Individuality Literature Problem solving Psycholinguistics Semantics Fantasy (Psychology) Human information processing Research funding Statistics Data analysis
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