Add to ORKGAlthough scientific reasoning is usually deliberate, it may also be influenced by the intuitive processes involved in everyday reasoning. Here, I investigated whether explanatory heuristic processes biased towards inherence (that is, the tendency to oversample easily-accessible inherent facts; Cimpian & Salomon, 2014) influence scientific explanation. Across seven studies, children and adults (N = 1,455) explained outcomes of unfamiliar experiments in physics, biology, and chemistry predominantly in terms of inherent features. These inherence-biased explanations exhibited multiple signatures of heuristic reasoning (e.g., they decreased with age and time spent deliberating). Strikingly, I also found traces of this bias toward inherence in in...
As adults, we have coherent, abstract, and highly structured causal representations of the world. We...
The Scientific Method is the series of processes by which hypotheses, ideas and theories are shown t...
While there is much data in the experimental cognitive psychology literature reporting that subjects...
Although scientific reasoning is usually deliberate, it may also be influenced by the intuitive proc...
People tend to explain events using inherent more than extrinsic factors, a phenomenon known as the ...
[Open Peer Commentary] The inherence heuristic is too broad as a theoretical notion. The authors are...
Explanations are central to understanding the causal relationships between entities within the envir...
The causal reasoning literature suggests that hypothesis testing will only include tests that suppor...
Unobservable mechanisms that tie causes to their effects generate observable events. How can one mak...
People tend to judge what is typical to be also good and appropriate—what one ought to do. What acco...
There are two problems with Cimpian & Salomon’s (C&S’s) claim that an innate inherence heu...
Research suggests that the process of explaining influences causal reasoning by prompting learners t...
A growing literature suggests that generating and evaluating explanations is a key mechanism for lea...
People are constantly making sense of their environment, explaining a wide variety of events and fac...
Although research on motivated reasoning has consistently shown that people's beliefs bias their eva...
As adults, we have coherent, abstract, and highly structured causal representations of the world. We...
The Scientific Method is the series of processes by which hypotheses, ideas and theories are shown t...
While there is much data in the experimental cognitive psychology literature reporting that subjects...
Although scientific reasoning is usually deliberate, it may also be influenced by the intuitive proc...
People tend to explain events using inherent more than extrinsic factors, a phenomenon known as the ...
[Open Peer Commentary] The inherence heuristic is too broad as a theoretical notion. The authors are...
Explanations are central to understanding the causal relationships between entities within the envir...
The causal reasoning literature suggests that hypothesis testing will only include tests that suppor...
Unobservable mechanisms that tie causes to their effects generate observable events. How can one mak...
People tend to judge what is typical to be also good and appropriate—what one ought to do. What acco...
There are two problems with Cimpian & Salomon’s (C&S’s) claim that an innate inherence heu...
Research suggests that the process of explaining influences causal reasoning by prompting learners t...
A growing literature suggests that generating and evaluating explanations is a key mechanism for lea...
People are constantly making sense of their environment, explaining a wide variety of events and fac...
Although research on motivated reasoning has consistently shown that people's beliefs bias their eva...
As adults, we have coherent, abstract, and highly structured causal representations of the world. We...
The Scientific Method is the series of processes by which hypotheses, ideas and theories are shown t...
While there is much data in the experimental cognitive psychology literature reporting that subjects...