{"pk":33075,"title":"Explanation and Evidence in Informal Reasoning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"planation and evidence play important and non?interchangeable roles in argument. However, previous \nresearch has shown that subjects often confuse explanation \nand evidence (Kuhn, 1991). This study investigates the \ncircumstances under which this confusion occurs. In \nExperiment 1, subjects generated arguments about issues of \npopular interest such as problems in schools and drug \nabuse. In Experiments 2 and 3, subjects rated the strength \nof evidence presented to them. The results of the protocol \nanalyses and ratings tasks suggest that subjects tend to \noverestimate the strength of explanations when they lack \nsufficient knowledge of the domain or when they are unable \nto generate alternatives to the hypotheses presented to \nthem. W e consider reasons why relying on explanations in \nthese circumstances might be a valuable heuristic","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4409v48v","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sarah","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brem","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""},{"first_name":"Lance","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Rips","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33075/galley/24136/download/"}]}