{"pk":26077,"title":"Explaining December 4, 2015:Cognitive Science Ripped from the Headlines","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Do the discoveries of cognitive science generalize beyondartificial lab experiments? Or do they have little hope ofhelping us to understand real-world events? Fretting on thisquestion, I bought a copy of the Wall Street Journal andfound that the three front page headlines each connect tomy own research on explanatory reasoning. I report tests ofthe phenomena of inferred evidence, belief digitization, andrevealed truth in real-world contexts derived from theheadlines. If my own corner of cognitive science has suchexplanatory relevance to the real world, then cognitivescience as a whole must be in far better shape yet.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Explanatory reasoning; ecological validity;everyday thinking; causal reasoning; theory of mind."}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36s3p5kj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Samuel","middle_name":"G. B.","last_name":"Johnson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Yale University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26077/galley/15713/download/"}]}