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1. How Seductive is the Reductive Allure? Exploring the suggested bias for scientific explanations containing irrelevant reductive information
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologiAbstract : Earlier studies have shown that when assessing explanations of psychological phenomena, there is a bias for explanations including references to neuroscience, even when these references contain logically irrelevant information (Fernandez-Duque, Evans, Christian & Hodges, 2015; M inahan & Siedlecki, 2016; Weisberg, Keil, Goodstein, Rawson and Gray, 2008; Weisberg, Taylor & Hopkins, 2015). Recently, it was suggested that this bias applies to reductive explanations within many sciences, i. READ MORE
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