Abstract:The study of explanation, while related to intuitive theories, concepts, and mental models, offers important new perspectives on high-level thought. Explanations sort themselves into several distinct types corresponding to patterns of causation, content domains, and explanatory stances, all of which have cognitive consequences. Although explanations are necessarily incomplete-often dramatically so in laypeople-those gaps are difficult to discern. Despite such gaps and the failure to recognize them fully, peopl… Show more
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