The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations
By Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Frank C. Keil, Joshua Goodstein, Elizabeth Rawson, Jeremy R. Gray. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2008
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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences
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In Cognitive Neuroscience
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Citations in the corpus
- Understanding Why: The cognitive science of explanation (2008, background): “Explanation has recently emerged as an important topic of study in both cognitive development and cognitive psychology (Keil, 2006; Weisberg et al., 2008).”
- Brain science and early years policy: Hopeful ethos or ‘cruel optimism’? (2015, background): “We draw on interviews with key proponents of early intervention policies and practitioners working in the early years field to interrogate the way that, rather than a progressive initiative, early intervention using brain science claims essentialises mother-child relations, biologises ideas about…”
- Critical Neuroscience: Linking Neuroscience and Society through Critical Practice (2009, background): “The ‘seductive allure’ of neuroscientific explanations has been documented by Skolnick Weisberg et al. (2008). C R I T I C A L N E U R O S C I E N C E j j 63”
- Explanations in the wild. (2021, positive): “…‘seductive allure’ of neuroscience explanations in that people find explanations especially compelling if they appeal to concepts from neuroscience (Weisberg et al., 2008), or (2) that there is a ‘reductive allure’ in that people find an explanation appealing if it reduces a phenomenon at one…”
- Neuroimaging and Inferential Distance (2008, background): “Reassuringly, this biasing effect is not seen in experts [27].”
- Neuroimaging of the Periaqueductal Gray: State of the Field (2011, background): “, 2009), and the beautiful brain images may lead scientists and the public to be over-confident in the results (McCabe and Castel, 2008; Weisberg et al., 2008).”