Tracking the eye of the beholder: is explanation subjective?
Stewart, Andrew J. and Singmann, Henrik and Haigh, Matthew and Wood, Jeffrey S. and Douven, Igor (2021) Tracking the eye of the beholder: is explanation subjective? Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 33 (2). pp. 199-206. ISSN 2044-592X
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Abstract
There is much recent evidence showing that explanation is central to various cognitive processes. On the other hand, philosophers have argued that the notions of explanation and explanation quality are too subjective for explanation to play any role in science: what may be an adequate explanation for one person may fail to be so for another. We compare the results of a study tasking participants with rating explanation quality with those of an eye-tracking study, finding that ratings of explanation quality from participants in the former study were strongly predictive of the ease with which participants in the latter study processed text fragments presenting the same explanations that were used in the rating study. This finding undermines the thought that explanation is only in the eye of the beholder.
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| Additional Information: | ** From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications Router ** History: epub 14-01-2021; issued 14-01-2021; ppub 17-02-2021. | ||||||
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2020.1870986 | ||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Comprehension, explanation quality, explanatory coherence, explanatory reasoning, eye tracking | ||||||
| Subjects: | CAH04 - psychology > CAH04-01 - psychology > CAH04-01-01 - psychology (non-specific) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences > Dept. Psychology | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | JISC PubRouter | ||||||
| Depositing User: | JISC PubRouter | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2021 08:24 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2022 03:00 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11478 |
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