Psychonomic bulletin & reviewHumansThinkingAdult
Explaining is not enough: Appealing explanations should also be surprising.
Aurélien Klopfenstein, Hugo Mercier
Published: 202610.3758/s13423-025-02789-0
Abstract
Philosophers have attempted to define the features that make an explanation a good explanation, and psychologists have shown that people are sensitive to many of these features. Psychologists have also pointed out the importance of the phenomenology…
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