کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5041446 1474099 2017 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The explanatory effect of a label: Explanations with named categories are more satisfying
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
اثر توضیحی یک برچسب: توضیحات با دسته های نامگذاری بیشتر رضایت بخش هستند
کلمات کلیدی
علت، توضیح، طبقه بندی، برچسب های رده،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
چکیده انگلیسی

Can opium's tendency to induce sleep be explained by appeal to a “dormitive virtue”? If the label merely references the tendency being explained, the explanation seems vacuous. Yet the presence of a label could signal genuinely explanatory content concerning the (causal) basis for the property being explained. In Experiments 1 and 2, we find that explanations for a person's behavior that appeal to a named tendency or condition are indeed judged to be more satisfying than equivalent explanations that differ only in omitting the name. In Experiment 3, we find support for one proposal concerning what it is about a name that drives a boost in explanatory satisfaction: named categories lead people to draw an inference to the existence of a cause underlying the category, a cause that is responsible for the behavior being explained. Our findings have implications for theories of explanation and point to the central role of causation in explaining behavior.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Cognition - Volume 168, November 2017, Pages 357-369
نویسندگان
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