Harry Potter and the sorcerer's scope: latent scope biases in explanatory reasoning
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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 Experiments 1a-d, participants found narrow latent scope explanations to be both more satisfying and more ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0028-1