Individual representation in a community of knowledge

N Rabb, PM Fernbach, SA Sloman - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
An individual's knowledge is collective in at least two senses: it often comes from other
people's testimony, and its deployment in reasoning and action requires accuracy …

Motivated to learn: An account of explanatory satisfaction

EG Liquin, T Lombrozo - Cognitive psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Many explanations have a distinctive, positive phenomenology: receiving or generating
these explanations feels satisfying. Accordingly, we might expect this feeling of explanatory …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of explanations on layperson trust in artificial intelligence–driven symptom checker apps: experimental study

C Woodcock, B Mittelstadt, D Busbridge… - Journal of medical Internet …, 2021 - jmir.org
Background Artificial intelligence (AI)–driven symptom checkers are available to millions of
users globally and are advocated as a tool to deliver health care more efficiently. To achieve …

Human-centered evaluation of explanations

J Boyd-Graber, S Carton, S Feng, QV Liao… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
The NLP community are increasingly interested in providing explanations for NLP models to
help people make sense of model behavior and potentially improve human interaction with …

Generics designate kinds but not always essences

A Noyes, FC Keil - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
People believe that some categories are kinds with reliable causal structure and high
inductive potential (eg, tigers). Widely endorsed theories propose that people are biased to …

Tautological formal explanations: does prior knowledge affect their satisfiability?

I Aslanov, E Guerra - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
It is known that formal explanations with categorical labels are more satisfying than explicit
tautologies. However, would they still be more satisfying if they are implicitly tautological …

[BOOK][B] The DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders: Integrating multiple paradigms of personality assessment

CJ Hopwood, A Mulay, M Waugh - 2019 - books.google.com
The DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders reviews and advances this
innovative and increasingly popular scheme for diagnosing and evaluating personality …

Community appeal: Explanation without information.

B Hemmatian, SA Sloman - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Formal or categorical explanation involves the use of a label to explain a property of an
object or group of objects. In four experiments, we provide evidence that label entrenchment …

Are formal explanations mere placeholders or pointers?

S Rivera, S Prasad, S Prasada - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Formal explanations–explanations that explain properties of a thing by reference to what the
thing is, for example, Fido has four legs because he is a dog, appear to be tautological and …

People's explanatory preferences for scientific phenomena

DS Weisberg, EJ Hopkins, JCV Taylor - Cognitive Research: Principles …, 2018 - Springer
Previous work has found that people are drawn to explanations of psychological
phenomena when these explanations contain neuroscience information, even when that …