Hopkins Emily J, Weisberg Deena Skolnick, Taylor Jordan C V
University of Pennsylvania, United States.
University of Pennsylvania, United States.
Cognition. 2016 Oct;155:67-76. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.06.011. Epub 2016 Jun 28.
Previous work has found that people feel significantly more satisfied with explanations of psychological phenomena when those explanations contain neuroscience information-even when this information is entirely irrelevant to the logic of the explanations. This seductive allure effect was first demonstrated by Weisberg, Keil, Goodstein, Rawson, and Gray (2008), and has since been replicated several times (Fernandez-Duque, Evans, Christian, & Hodges, 2015; Minahan & Siedlecki, 2016; Rhodes, Rodriguez, & Shah, 2014; Weisberg, Taylor, & Hopkins, 2015). However, these studies only examined psychological phenomena. The current study thus investigated the generality of this effect and found that it occurs across several scientific disciplines whenever the explanations include reductive information: reference to smaller components or more fundamental processes. These data suggest that people have a general preference for reductive information, even when it is irrelevant to the logic of an explanation.
先前的研究发现，当对心理现象的解释包含神经科学信息时，人们会明显更满意——即使这些信息与解释的逻辑完全无关。这种诱人的魅力效应最早由韦斯伯格、凯尔、古德斯坦、罗森和格雷（2008年）证明，此后又被多次重复验证（费尔南德斯-杜克、埃文斯、克里斯蒂安和霍奇斯，2015年；米纳汉和西德莱茨基，2016年；罗兹、罗德里格斯和沙阿，2014年；韦斯伯格、泰勒和霍普金斯，2015年）。然而，这些研究只考察了心理现象。因此，本研究调查了这种效应的普遍性，发现只要解释中包含还原信息：提及更小的组成部分或更基本的过程，这种效应就会在多个科学学科中出现。这些数据表明，人们普遍偏好还原信息，即使它与解释的逻辑无关。
