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    "pk": 26396,
    "title": "Are Symptom Clusters Explanatory?\nA Study in Mental Disorders and Non-Causal Explanation",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Three experiments investigate whether and why people accept\nexplanations for symptoms that appeal to mental disorders,\nsuch as: “She experiences delusions because she has\nschizophrenia.” Such explanations are potentially puzzling, as\nmental disorder diagnoses are made on the basis of symptoms,\nand the DSM implicitly rejects a commitment to some\ncommon, underlying cause. Do laypeople nonetheless\nconceptualize mental disorder classifications in causal terms?\nOr is this an instance of non-causal explanation? Experiment 1\nshows that such explanations are indeed found explanatory.\nExperiment 2 presents participants with novel disorders that\nare stipulated to involve or not involve an underlying cause\nacross symptoms and people. Disorder classifications are\nfound more explanatory when a causal basis is stipulated, or\nwhen participants infer that one is present (even after it’s\ndenied in the text). Finally, Experiment 3 finds that merely\nhaving a principled, but non-causal, basis for defining\nsymptom clusters is insufficient to reach the explanatory\npotential of categories with a stipulated common cause. We\ndiscuss the implications for accounts of explanation and for\npsychiatry.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "explanation"
        },
        {
            "word": "Understanding"
        },
        {
            "word": "Mental Disorders"
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    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8jr0r93x",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wilkenfeld",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jennifer",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Asselin",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The Ohio State University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tania",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lombrozo",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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