Tania Lombrozo
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American psychologist
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Tania Lombrozo's Degrees
- PhD Psychology Stanford University
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Tania Lombrozo is an American psychologist who is the Arthur W. Marks Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. She oversees the Concepts and Cognition Laboratory, which looks to understand the science that underpins cognition.
Tania Lombrozo's Published Works
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Published Works
- The structure and function of explanations (2006) (538)
- Simplicity and probability in causal explanation (2007) (311)
- Functional explanation and the function of explanation (2006) (266)
- Brain responses to nouns, verbs and class-ambiguous words in context. (2000) (223)
- Explanation and Abductive Inference (2012) (221)
- Causal–explanatory pluralism: How intentions, functions, and mechanisms influence causal ascriptions (2010) (203)
- The Importance of Understanding the Nature of Science for Accepting Evolution (2008) (199)
- The role of explanation in discovery and generalization: evidence from category learning (2010) (194)
- Norms inform mental state ascriptions: A rational explanation for the side-effect effect (2010) (160)
- Inferring Design (2007) (128)
- Explanatory Preferences Shape Learning and Inference (2016) (125)
- The Role of Moral Commitments in Moral Judgment (2009) (119)
- Selective effects of explanation on learning during early childhood. (2014) (112)
- Explanation and prior knowledge interact to guide learning (2013) (96)
- The Instrumental Value of Explanations (2011) (95)
- Explanation and categorization: How “why?” informs “what?” (2009) (91)
- Occam's rattle: children's use of simplicity and probability to constrain inference. (2012) (90)
- Explaining prompts children to privilege inductively rich properties (2014) (87)
- Children adapt their questions to achieve efficient search (2015) (81)
- The hazards of explanation: overgeneralization in the face of exceptions. (2013) (81)
- Sources of developmental change in the efficiency of information search. (2016) (60)
- Explanation and inference: mechanistic and functional explanations guide property generalization (2014) (49)
- Awe as a Scientific Emotion (2018) (47)
- Explaining Constrains Causal Learning in Childhood. (2017) (47)
- Concept possession, experimental semantics, and hybrid theories of reference (2012) (45)
- The Intelligent Design controversy: lessons from psychology and education (2006) (44)
- The Future of Women in Psychological Science (2020) (44)
- Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) Versus Explaining for the Best Inference (EBI) (2015) (41)
- The Development of Structural Thinking About Social Categories (2018) (40)
- Ockham’s Razor Cuts to the Root: Simplicity in Causal Explanation (2017) (39)
- Patients With Alzheimer's Disease (2016) (38)
- Explaining the moral of the story (2017) (38)
- Effects of explaining on children's preference for simpler hypotheses (2017) (35)
- Depth and deference: When and why we attribute understanding (2016) (30)
- Effects of Manipulation on Attributions of Causation, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility (2017) (28)
- Evaluating computational models of explanation using human judgments (2013) (27)
- A functional approach to explanation-seeking curiosity (2020) (27)
- Functions in biological kind classification (2012) (26)
- Explanation-seeking curiosity in childhood (2020) (26)
- Revising Learner Misconceptions Without Feedback: Prompting for Reflection on Anomalies (2016) (25)
- Contextual utility affects the perceived quality of explanations (2017) (25)
- The explanatory effect of a label: Explanations with named categories are more satisfying (2017) (23)
- Why does explaining help learning? Insight from an explanation impairment effect (2010) (23)
- Explanation recruits comparison in a category-learning task (2019) (22)
- Oxford studies in experimental philosophy (2014) (21)
- Science demands explanation, religion tolerates mystery (2020) (21)
- “Learning by Thinking” in Science and in Everyday Life (2020) (20)
- Stable Causal Relationships are Better Causal Relationships (2018) (20)
- Explaining Influences Children's Reliance on Evidence and Prior Knowledge in Causal Induction (2012) (18)
- Stability, breadth and guidance (2018) (18)
- Bayesian Occam's Razor Is a Razor of the People (2018) (17)
- What makes a good explanation? Cognitive dimensions of explaining intelligent machines (2019) (17)
- Young children’s learning and generalization of teleological and mechanistic explanations (2018) (16)
- Bundles of Contradiction (2016) (16)
- Structure-function fit underlies the evaluation of teleological explanations (2018) (16)
- Curiosity Is Contagious: A Social Influence Intervention to Induce Curiosity (2020) (15)
- Can Science Explain the Human Mind? Intuitive Judgments About the Limits of Science (2018) (14)
- Structural thinking about social categories: Evidence from formal explanations, generics, and generalization (2020) (13)
- Effects of explanation on children’s question asking (2019) (13)
- Mechanistic versus Functional Understanding (2019) (12)
- Goals Affect the Perceived Quality of Explanations (2015) (12)
- Transformations and Transfer: Preschool Children Understand Abstract Relations and Reason Analogically in a Causal Task. (2020) (12)
- Effects of Explanation and Comparison on Category Learning (2013) (12)
- Children search for information as efficiently as adults, but seek additional confirmatory evidence (2015) (12)
- How to Help Young Children Ask Better Questions? (2021) (11)
- Wrong or merely prohibited: Special treatment of strict liability in intuitive moral judgment. (2016) (11)
- ‘Folk Theories’ About the Causes of Insomnia (2013) (11)
- Learning By Asking: How Children Ask Questions To Achieve Efficient Search (2014) (11)
- If it's important, then I am curious: A value intervention to induce curiosity (2019) (10)
- Explaining increases belief revision in the face of (many) anomalies (2012) (9)
- Learning Through Simulation (2020) (9)
- An Actor's Knowledge and Intent Are More Important in Evaluating Moral Transgressions Than Conventional Transgressions. (2018) (9)
- Explanation constrains learning, and prior knowledge constrains explanation (2010) (9)
- A Coexistence View of Conceptual Change (2016) (8)
- Morality justifies motivated reasoning in the folk ethics of belief (2020) (8)
- FOLK ATTRIBUTIONS OF UNDERSTANDING: IS THERE A ROLE FOR EPISTEMIC LUCK? (2016) (8)
- Exploring Metaethical Commitments: Moral Objectivity and Moral Progress (2014) (8)
- Editorial: Psychology and Experimental Philosophy (2010) (7)
- Determinants and Consequences of the Need for Explanation (2018) (7)
- Putting normativity in its proper place (2010) (6)
- Explaining drives the discovery of real and illusory patterns (2011) (6)
- Motivated to learn: An account of explanatory satisfaction (2021) (6)
- Flexibility of spatial averaging in visual perception (2005) (5)
- Mental states are more important in evaluating moral than conventional violations (2015) (5)
- Ockham’s razor as inductive bias in preschooler’s causal explanations (2008) (5)
- Learning online via prompts to explain (2014) (5)
- When and How Children Use Explanations to Guide Generalizations (2022) (5)
- Experiential Explanation (2020) (4)
- Effects of Comparison and Explanation on Analogical Transfer (2014) (4)
- Explain, Explore, Exploit: Effects of Explanation on Information Search (2017) (4)
- Social Consequences of Information Search: Seeking evidence and explanation signals religious and scientific commitments (2019) (4)
- Norms Inform Mental State Ascriptions (2014) (4)
- The Campaign for Concepts (2011) (4)
- Explanation classification depends on understanding: extending the epistemic side-effect effect (2018) (4)
- You Should Really Think This Through: Cross-Domain Variation in Preferences for Intuition and Deliberation (2020) (3)
- Because the Brain Agrees: The Impact of Neuroscientific Explanations for Belief (2014) (3)
- Simplicity in Explanation (2004) (3)
- Folk theories in the moral domain (2018) (3)
- From conceptual representations to explanatory relations (2010) (3)
- Explaining Guides Learners Towards Perfect Patterns, Not Perfect Prediction (2017) (3)
- Computational Modeling of Chord Fingering for String Instruments (2005) (3)
- Your liking is my curiosity: a social popularity intervention to induce curiosity (2018) (3)
- Scientific Discovery and the Human Drive to Explain (2019) (3)
- Explaining the existential: scientific and religious explanations play different functional roles (2020) (3)
- Reconciling scientific and commonsense values to improve reasoning (2021) (3)
- Seeking Ideal Explanations in a Non-Ideal World (2018) (2)
- Morality justifies motivated reasoning (2020) (2)
- When Generic Language does not Promote Psychological Essentialism (2020) (2)
- Explanation and its Limits: Mystery and the Need for Explanation in Science and Religion (2018) (2)
- The Influence of Implicit Normative Commitments in Decision-Making (2019) (2)
- How “is” shapes “ought” for folk-biological concepts (2021) (2)
- When and why people think beliefs are “debunked” by scientific explanations of their origins (2020) (2)
- Explaining to Others Prompts Children to Favor Inductively Rich Properties (2013) (2)
- Inquiry, Theory-Formation, and the Phenomenology of Explanation (2019) (2)
- If it's important, then I’m curious: Increasing perceived usefulness stimulates curiosity (2020) (2)
- Explaining Promotes Discovery: Evidence from Category Learning (2009) (2)
- Simplicity and Probability in Children's Causal Explanations (2007) (2)
- Deciding to be authentic: Intuition is favored over deliberation when authenticity matters (2022) (2)
- Deciding to be Authentic: Intuition is Favored Over Deliberation for Self-Reflective Decisions (2021) (2)
- Explaining the existential: Scientific and religious explanations play different functional roles. (2021) (1)
- Quantifying Curiosity: A Formal Approach to Dissociating Causes of Curiosity (2020) (1)
- The Effects of Mechanistic and Functional Explanations on Categorization - eScholarship (2007) (1)
- The Cultural Transmission of Explanations: Evidence that Teleological Explanations are Preferentially Remembered (2010) (1)
- Explaining the Existential: Functional Roles of Scientific and Religious Explanation (2020) (1)
- People view humans as existing for purposes and condemn those who fail to fulfill them (2020) (1)
- Explanations and Causal Judgments Are Differentially Sensitive to Covariation and Mechanism Information (2022) (1)
- W-D-016 PATIENTS' ATTRIBUTIONS ABOUT THE CAUSES OF INSOMNIA (2011) (1)
- Moral norms inform mental state ascriptions (2009) (1)
- Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) Versus Explaining for the Best Inference (EBI) (2015) (1)
- Varieties of Ignorance: Mystery and the Unknown in Science and Religion (2022) (1)
- Revising Learner Misconceptions Without Feedback: Prompting for Reflection on Anomalous Facts (2015) (1)
- Simplicity as a Cue to Probability: Multiple Roles for Simplicity in Evaluating Explanations (2022) (1)
- Teleological Explanation in Alzheimer's Disease (2006) (1)
- Editorial: Dimensions of Experimental Philosophy (2010) (1)
- From teleology to morality: Why belief in human purpose prompts moral condemnation of individuals who fail to fulfill it (2021) (1)
- Understanding Why: The cognitive science of explanation (2008) (1)
- Minimally counterintuitive stimuli trigger greater curiosity than merely improbable stimuli (2022) (1)
- Effects of Explaining Anomalies on the Generation and Evaluation of Hypotheses (2013) (1)
- People recognize and condone their own morally motivated reasoning (2023) (1)
- Experiential Explanations in Iterated Learning (2020) (1)
- Explanatory Considerations Guide Pursuit (2019) (0)
- The enigma of life: confronting marvels at the edges of science (2020) (0)
- Norms as Direct Explanations of Behavior (2011) (0)
- Effects of explaining on children's preference for simpler hypotheses (2017) (0)
- Linguistic differences in explanation requests and their effects on the evaluation of explanations: the case of English and Turkish (2013) (0)
- Effects of E xplaining A nomalies on the G eneration and E valuation of H ypotheses (2013) (0)
- Causal Structure and Probability Information Modulate the Preference for Simple Explanations (2019) (0)
- What Are the Limits of Scientific Explanation? (2019) (0)
- Oxford studies in experimental philosophy, volume 2 (2020) (0)
- Women in Science Books (2018) (0)
- Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective (2023) (0)
- Philosophy instruction changes views on moral controversies by decreasing reliance on intuition (2023) (0)
- Evolution Challenges • edited by Karl S Rosengren, Sarah K Brem, E Margaret Evans, and GaleM Sinatra (2013) (0)
- Mens Rea in Moral Jud gment and Criminal L aw (2021) (0)
- The Puzzle of Belief (2023) (0)
- Explanation-based Mechanisms for Learning: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2011) (0)
- Ask me why, don't tell me why: Asking children for explanations facilitates relational thinking. (2022) (0)
- Running head: CAUSAL FRAMING IMPROVES EARLY ANALOGICAL REASONING 1 (2019) (0)
- Running head : FOLK THEORIES Folk Theories in the Moral Domain (2016) (0)
- Are Symptom Clusters Explanatory? A Study in Mental Disorders and Non-Causal Explanation (2016) (0)
- How simple explanations change our minds and why we prefer them (2012) (0)
- Depth and deference: When and why we attribute understanding (2015) (0)
- Acknowledgment to our referees (2009) (0)
- Lyn Frazier, Maria nella Carminati, Anne E. cook, Helen Majewski and Keith Rayner (university of massachusetts) semantic evaluation of syntactic structure: Evidence from eye movements, b53–b62 Andrea Weber (saarland university), Martine Grice (university of cologne) and Matthew W. Crocker (saarland (2006) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Explanation as a guide to learning (2010) (0)
- Running head: STABILITY IN CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS 1 Stable Causal Relationships are Better Causal Relationships (2018) (0)
- DEBUNKING ” 1 When and why people think beliefs are “ debunked ” by scientific explanations for their origins (2018) (0)
- People acknowledge and condone their own morally motivated reasoning (2021) (0)
- Global Change and Cognition (2013) (0)
- Explanation classification depends on understanding: extending the epistemic side-effect effect (2018) (0)
- Experiments on causal exclusion (2021) (0)
- Teleological Explanation: Why We Answer “Why?” the Way We Do (2003) (0)
- What Ockham's Razor Cuts: Quantifying simplicity in explanation choice (2011) (0)
- Contextual utility affects the perceived quality of explanations (2017) (0)
- Stability, breadth and guidance (2017) (0)
- Reversing the side-effect effect: the 'Rational Scientist' explanation - eScholarship (2010) (0)
- The surprising consequences of engaging in contrastive explanation (2020) (0)
- Why Why Darwin Matters Matters (2009) (0)
- Human-Centered Evaluation of Explanations (2022) (0)
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