{"pk":25695,"title":"Computational principles underlying people’s behavior explanations","subtitle":null,"abstract":"There are often multiple explanations for someone’s behavior,\nbut people generally find some behavior explanations more satisfying\nthan others. We hypothesized that people prefer behavior\nexplanations that are simple and rational. We present\na computational account of behavior explanation that captures\nthese two principles. Our computational account is based on\ndecision networks. Decision networks allow us to formally\ncapture what it means for an explanation to be simple and rational.\nWe tested our account by asking people to rate how satisfying\nseveral behavior explanations were (Experiment 1) or\nto generate their own explanations (Experiment 2). We found\nthat people’s responses were well predicted by our account.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"behavior explanation; social cognition; decision\nnetworks"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pc3r77v","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"AJ","middle_name":"","last_name":"Piergiovanni","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Alan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jern","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25695/galley/15319/download/"}]}