When explanations compete: the role of explanatory coherence on judgements of likelihood.

By Steven A. Sloman. 1994

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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, background): “ck Weisberg, 2008; Malle, 1999,2004, 2011; Manicas and Secord, 1983; McClure, 2002; McClure and Hilton, 1997, 1998; McClure, Sutton, and Hilton, 2003; Malle, 1999, 2004, 2011; Rey, 2012; Royce, 1963; Sloman, 1994; Swartout, 1987; Vasilyeva, Wilkenfeld, and Lombrozo, 2016; Vasilyeva and Lombrozo, 201”
Background shifts affect explanatory style: how a pragmatic theory of explanation accounts for background effects in the generation of explanations (2010, methodology): “Medin 1985) and make category-based inferences based upon that knowledge (Medin et al. 2003; Sloman 1994).”
Understanding Why: The cognitive science of explanation (2008, background): “Explanations are even used as a basis for assessing truth (Sloman, 1994; Trout, 2002; Lombrozo, 2007).”
Artifacts are not ascribed essences, nor are they treated as belonging to kinds (2003, methodology): “because patterns of induction are property-specific (Heit & Rubinstein, 1994; Sloman, 1994 ).”
Science and God: An automatic opposition between ultimate explanations (2009, background): “In contrast, alternate explanations for the same effects may possess a negative association between them (Thagard, 2006), such that the perceived validity of one can impact the perceived validity of the other (Sloman, 1994).”
Explanation and Abductive Inference (2012, background): “For example, Sloman (1994) provided participants with an initial claim, such as many secretaries “have a hard time financing a house” or “have bad backs,” and asked them to evaluate the probability of a related claim, such as many furniture movers “have a hard time financing a house” or “have bad…”
The Instrumental Value of Explanations (2011, background): “Similarly, the content of generated or provided explanations can influence how probability is assigned to one claim in light of another (Sloman 1994; Rehder 2006; Lombrozo and Gwynne forthcoming).”
Paper has been my ruin: Conceptual relations of polysemous senses (2002, result): “The observed strategy leads to negative induction strengths in many cases and is reminiscent of other findings in the induction literature (Sloman, 1994).”
When similarity and causality compete in category-based property generalization (2006, background): “The importance of causal explanations shared between premises and conclusions has been demonstrated by Sloman (1994, 1997) , who found that, for example, people showed greater confidence in the conclusion “many war veterans are hired as bodyguards,” given the premise “many ex-cons are hired as body”
Setters and samoyeds: the emergence of subordinate level categories as a basis for inductive inference in preschool-age children. (1997, background): “Our willingness to extend a property (applied to one individual) to other individuals appears to depend on our knowledge about the property itself as well as our knowledge about the object category to which it has been applied (Coley, 1995; Goodman, 1955/1983; Heit & Rubinstein, 1994; Osherson, Lope”