Explanation and Understanding
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Psychology
- Vol. 57 (1), 227-254
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.57.102904.190100
Abstract
The study of explanation, while related to intuitive theories, concepts, and mental models, offers important new perspectives on high-level thought. Explanations sort themselves into several distin...Keywords
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