Social Attribution and Explanation
By Denis J. Hilton. 2017
37 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “Hilton [70] argues that explanation selection is used for cognitive reasons: causal chains are often too large to comprehend.”
- Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting (2023, background): “…human-written explanations, these explanations are not only known to be incomplete, often omitting crucial parts of the causal chain for a particular event (Lombrozo, 2006; Hilton, 2017), but they can also often be unfaithful accounts of individuals’ cognitive processes (Nisbett and Wilson, 1977).”
- Explaining NLP Models via Minimal Contrastive Editing (MiCE) (2020, background): “Second, they are minimal in the sense that they rarely cite the entire causal chain of a particular event, but select just a few relevant causes (Hilton, 2017).”