{"pk":31769,"title":"Self vs. Other-Generated Hypotheses in Scientific Discovery","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Other-generated hypotheses are often considered easier\nto test than self-generated hyptitheses. T o determine\nthe precise effects of other-generated hypotheses, w e\npropose three kinds of effects and describe a study\ndesigned to test for these effects of hypothesis source.\nT h e three kinds of effects considered are: (i) hypothesis\nplausibility changes, (ii) skepticism changes, and (iii)\nprocess changes. Forty-two undergraduate subjects\nwere given a microworld discovery task called\nMilktruck. Subjects either had to generate their o w n\ninitial hypothesis or were given the most frequently\ngenerated hypothesis. It w a s found that the other-\ngenerated hypothesis lead to m o r e thorough\ninvestigation of hypotheses resulting in a decrease in\nfalse terminations with incorrect solutions. T h e results\nsuggested these effects were caused by an increjise in\nskepticism rather than changes in hypothesis\nplausibility or process changes.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7k87488p","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Christian","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Schunn","name_suffix":"","institution":"Camegie Mellon University","department":""},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Klahr","name_suffix":"","institution":"Camegie Mellon University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31769/galley/22837/download/"}]}