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    "pk": 28051,
    "title": "Seeking Ideal Explanations in a Non-Ideal World",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Research has found that when children or adults attemptto explain novel observations in the course of learning,they are more likely to discover patterns that support idealexplanations: explanations that are maximally simple andbroad. However, not all learning contexts support suchexplanations. Can explaining facilitate discoverynonetheless? We present a study in which participantswere tasked with discovering a rule governing theclassification of items, where the items were consistenttwo non-ideal rules: one correctly classified 66% of cases,the other 83%. We find that when there is no ideal rule tobe discovered (i.e., no 100% rule), participants promptedto explain are better than control participants atdiscovering the best available rule (i.e., the 83% rule).This supports the idea that seeking ideal explanations canbe beneficial in a non-ideal world because the pursuit ofan ideal explanation can facilitate the discovery ofimperfect patterns along the way.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "explanation; learning; scientific practice"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9ws1p8q8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Elizabeth",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kon",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC Berkley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tania",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lombrozo",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC Berkley",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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