How the Mind Explains Behavior

By Bertram F. Malle. 2004

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Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, neutral): “…2006, 2009a, 2011, 2016; Lombrozo and Carey, 2006; Lombrozo and Gwynne, 2014a; Lombrozo, Sloman, Strevens, Trout, and Skolnick Weisberg, 2008; Malle, 1999,2004, 2011; Manicas and Secord, 1983; McClure, 2002; McClure and Hilton, 1997, 1998; McClure, Sutton, and Hilton, 2003; Malle, 1999,…”
The Enhancing Versus Backfiring Effects of Positive Emotion in Consumer Reviews (2020, background): “Furthermore, as readers begin their attribution process, they are likely to search for why reviewers had the reactions they did (Hastie 1984; Malle 2004).”
Algorithms for the Greater Good! On Mental Modeling and Acceptable Symbiosis in Human-AI Collaboration (2018, methodology): “More recently, in the now famous Chester vs Afshar case (2004) (Cass 2006) the surgeon was found guilty of failing to notify even a 1-2% chance of paralysis even though the defendant did not have to prove that they would have chosen not to have the surgery if they were given that information.”
Entertainment is Emotion: The Functional Architecture of the Entertainment Experience (2008, background): “According to Malle (2004), people frequently engage in explaining others’ and their own behavior for various reasons, including finding coherence in events and persons and placing actions in the larger context of their personal lives and identities.”
Overcoming the illusion of will and self‐fabrication: Going beyond naïve subjective personal introspection to an unconscious/conscious theory of behavior explanation (2006, background): “Section three explicates the folk-conceptual theory of behavior explanation (see Hilton 1990; McClure 2002; Malle, 1999; Malle, 2004a, 2004b; Malle & Knobe 1997) and emphasizes this theory's relevancy to SPI research and theory.”
Background shifts affect explanatory style: how a pragmatic theory of explanation accounts for background effects in the generation of explanations (2010, background): “This understanding, and the explanatory power it contains, affects how we reason about people (Malle 2004) and events in the physical world (Salmon 1998a), how we learn and represent concepts (Lombrozo 2009; Murphy and Medin 1985) and make category-based inferences based upon that knowledge (Medin…”