Do we need the inherence heuristic to explain the bias towards inherent explanations?. Issue 5 (October 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dunham, Yarrow
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 37:Issue 5(2014)
• Page Start: 488
• Page End: 489
• Publication Date: 2014-10
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13003713
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="normal"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>It is clear that people often make unwarranted inherence-based explanations, but it is less clear that explaining this fact requires the inherence heuristic. Instead, it can be explained by a more general explanatory apparatus operating on the most readily available information, which, depending on the nature of that information, outputs both inherent and noninherent explanations.</p> </abstract>