People’s explanatory preferences for scientific phenomena

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 not inve...

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Main Authors: Hopkins, E.J (Author), Taylor, J.C.V (Author), Weisberg, D.S (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2018
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