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    "title": "Historical Cognition: An Investigation of Factors Affecting Reasoning about\nHistorical Causality",
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    "abstract": "We assessed whether students’ reasoning about historical causality is biased by accessibility and previous knowledge.\nUndergraduates in Canada provided explanations for historical events: the attacks on Pearl Harbor and September 11,\n2001. Participants were then given several explanations for these events, including conventional historical and alternative conspiracist\nexplanations, and reported how satisfying they found them. Overall, historical explanations were more satisfying than\nalternative explanations. Historical explanations were more satisfying for Pearl Harbor than 9/11, and alternative explanations\nwere more satisfying for 9/11 than Pearl Harbor. Similarly, ease of generating an explanation was associated with satisfaction\nwith historical explanations for Pearl Harbor, and with satisfaction with alternative explanations for 9/11. Participants’ general\nconspiracist beliefs were also associated with acceptance of alternative and historical explanations. Students learn about Pearl\nHarbor in history class, whereas information about 9/11 comes primarily from the media, leaving the door open to a multiplicity\nof ahistorical explanations.",
    "language": "eng",
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        {
            "first_name": "Cindel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "White",
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            "institution": "King’s University College at Western University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Marcie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Penner-Wilger",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "King’s University College at Western University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Graham",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Broad",
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            "institution": "King’s University College at Western University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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