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    "title": "Empathy in Explanation",
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    "abstract": "Why do we give the explanations we do? Recent work has suggested that we should think of explanation as a kind of cooperative social interaction, between a why-question-asker and an explainer. Here, we apply this perspective to consider the role emotion plays in this social interaction. We develop a computational framework for modeling explainers who consider the emotional impact an explanation might have on a listener. We test our framework by modeling human intuitions about how a doctor should explain to a patient why they have a disease, depending on the patient's propensity for regret. Our model predicts human intuitions well, better than ablations suggestive that people do indeed reason about emotion when giving explanations. See https://sites.google.com/view/empathy-in-explanation for further details and pre-print.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Causal reasoning; Social cognition; Theory of Mind; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling"
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ss809vr",
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            "first_name": "Katherine",
            "middle_name": "M",
            "last_name": "Collins",
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            "institution": "MIT",
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            "last_name": "Chandra",
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            "institution": "MIT",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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