Abstract
Do the discoveries of cognitive science generalize beyond artificial lab experiments? Or do they have little hope of helping us to understand real-world events? Fretting on this question, I bought a copy of the Wall Street Journal and found that the three front page headlines each connect to my own research on explanatory reasoning. I report tests of the phenomena of inferred evidence, belief digitization, and revealed truth in real-world contexts derived from the headlines. If my own corner of cognitive science has such explanatory relevance to the real world, then cognitive science as a whole must be in far better shape yet.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society |
| Pages | 63-68 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |