Wael Matar Hasan Alharbi
Actions speak louder than words: modifications of the applied academic books and their reflections on students' academic success, academic enjoyment, and academic resilience
BMC psychology
much cognition allows us make sense things explaining observable evidence terms unobservable explanations category memberships hidden causes yet must often make explanatory inferences incomplete evidence ignorant relevant facts diagnostic features seven experiments studied people make explanatory inferences uncertain conditions testing possibility people attempt infer presence absence diagnostic evidence basis cues evidence base rates even cues normatively irrelevant proceed make explanatory inferences basis inferred evidence participants followed strategy diagnostic causal reasoning experiments 14 7 categorization experiments 56 leading illusory inferences two processing predictions account also confirmed concerning participants evidenceseeking behavior experiment 4 beliefs likely presence absence evidence experiment 5 findings reveal deep commonalities superficially distinct forms diagnostic reasoningcausal reasoning classificationand point toward common inferential machinery across explanatory tasks