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Temporal Explanations

delete2023-06-01
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Laura Kelly *
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Sangeet Khemlani
DOI:10.1037/xge0001338delete
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People can explain phenomena by appealing to temporal relations, for example, you might explain a colleague's absence at a meeting by inferring that their prior meeting ended late. Previous explanatory reasoning research shows that people construct causal explanations to resolve causal conflicts. Accordingly, temporal explanations may help reasoners resolve temporal conflicts, and we describe four experimental tests of the hypothesis (N = 240). Experiment 1 provided participants with conflicting or consistent temporal information and elicited natural responses about what followed. Participants spontaneously provided temporal explanations to resolve inconsistencies, and only a minority of them provided more conservative, direct refutations. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that participants preferred temporal explanations over simpler refutations to resolve conflicts, and Experiment 4 showed that participants judged temporal explanations more probable than refutations, and thereby yielded a novel class of conjunction fallacies. The research is the first to examine patterns in temporal explanatory reasoning.
Keyword:
temporal explanations
conflicts
inconsistencies
duration
event cognition

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J
Journal of Experimental Psychology-General
IF:
3.5
论文数:
2.9K
被引数:
1.6W

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United States Department of Defense 封面图
United States Department of Defense
学者数:
2.8W
论文数: 2.3W
被引数: 172
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