Do we need the inherence heuristic to explain the bias towards inherent explanations?
It is clear that people often make unwarranted inherence-based explanations, but it is less clear that explaining this fact requires the inherence heuristic. Instead, it can be explained by a more general explanatory apparatus operating on the most readily available information, which, depending on the nature of that information, outputs both inherent and noninherent explanations.
Department of Psychology,Yale University,New Haven, CT 06511.yarrow.dunham@yale.eduhttp://scdlab.yale.edu.
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D003071:Cognition; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008128:Logic