Goals Affect the Perceived Quality of Explanations

By N. Vasilyeva, Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Tania Lombrozo. 2015

14 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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1. Sandeep Prasada
2. Tania Lombrozo
3. Tim Miller

Citations in the corpus

• The scope of formal explanation (2017, background): “Vasilyeva, Wilkenfeld, and Lombrozo (2015) provided evidence that people’s current goals affect their evaluations of different types of explanations, such that explanations receive a relative boost when they provide support for goal-relevant inferences.”