Attribution theories: How people make sense of behavior.

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Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “Malle and Pearce [118] break the actions that people will explain into two dimensions: (1) intentional vs. unintentional ; and (2) observable vs. unobservable; thus creating four different classifications (see Figure 6).”
The hazards of explanation: overgeneralization in the face of exceptions. (2013, background): “Because behavior is arguably explained in terms of unique features (Malle, 2011; Master, Markman, & Dweck, 2012) more readily than is the category membership of objects, finding an impairment here would bolster the evidence that explaining drives people toward broad patterns at the expense of idiosy”