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    "pk": 21467,
    "title": "Do as I explain: Explanations communicate optimal interventions",
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    "abstract": "People often select only a few events when explaining what happened. What drives people's explanation selection? Prior research argued that people's explanation choices are affected by event normality and causal structure. Here, we propose a new model of these existing findings and test its predictions in a novel experiment. The model predicts that speakers value accuracy and relevance. They choose explanations that are true, and that communicate useful information to the listener. We test the model's predictions empirically by manipulating what goals a listener has and what actions they can take. Across twelve experimental conditions, we find that our model accurately predicts that people like to choose explanations that communicate optimal interventions",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Causal reasoning; Language and thought; Pragmatics"
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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            "first_name": "Lara",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kirfel",
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            "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Human Development",
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            "first_name": "Jacqueline",
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            "last_name": "Harding",
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            "institution": "Stanford University",
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            "institution": "Department of Computer Science",
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            "institution": "Department of Philosophy",
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            "institution": "Stanford University",
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            "institution": "Stanford University",
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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