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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"inherence heuristic"”.
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The influence of an inherence heuristic on scientific explanation
… Here, I investigated whether explanatory heuristic processes biased towards inherence (that is, the tendency to oversample easily-accessible inherent facts; Cimpian & Salomon, 2014) influence scientific explanation. Across seven studies, children and adults (N = 1,455) explained outcomes …
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An early-emerging explanatory heuristic underlies the tendency to defend the status quo
… because they are really smart). In turn, this “inherence” bias makes it seem that the observations being explained (such as the societal status quo) are legitimate and thus worthy of support. Four studies with participants as young as 4 provided correlational and experimental evidence for the …
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A general explanatory tendency underlies common assumptions about how the world works: an investigation of nominal fit and essentialist beliefs
… Often, these explanations are the product of a heuristic process that relies on highly accessible information to make sense of a phenomenon (Cimpian & Salomon, 2014a, 2014b; Thomas, Dougherty, Sprenger, & Harbison, 2008). Importantly, highly accessible information is often skewed to include …