{"pk":27121,"title":"Determinants of judgments of explanatory power:\nCredibility, Generalizability, and Causal Framing","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This study investigates how judgments of explanatory power\nare affected by (i) the prior credibility of a potential\nexplanation, (ii) the causal framing used to describe the\nexplanation, and (iii) the generalizability of the explanation.\nWe found that the prior credibility of a causal explanation\nplays a central role in explanatory reasoning: first, because of\nthe presence of strong main effects on judgments of\nexplanatory power, and second, because of the gate-keeping\nrole prior credibility has for other factors. Highly credible\nexplanations were not susceptible to causal framing effects.\nInstead, highly credible hypotheses were sensitive to the\ngeneralizability of an explanation. While these results yield a\nmore nuanced understanding of the determinants of\njudgments of explanatory power, they also illuminate the\nclose relationship between prior beliefs and explanatory\npower and the relationship between abductive and\nprobabilistic reasoning.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Explanation; Prior credibility; Causal framing;\nGeneralizability; Abduction"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xp8v1q2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Matteo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Colombo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tillburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Leandra","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bucher","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wuppertal","department":""},{"first_name":"Jan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sprenger","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tillburg University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27121/galley/16757/download/"}]}