Abstract:
:This article concerns a class of experimental manipulations that require people to generate explanations or imagine scenarios. A review of studies using such manipulations indicates that people who explain or imagine a possibility then express greater confidence in the truth of that possibility. It is argued that this effect results from the approach people take in the explanation or imagination task: They temporarily assume that the hypothesis is true and assess how plausibly it can account for the relevant evidence. From this view, any task that requires that a hypothesis be treated as if it were true is sufficient to increase confidence in the truth of that hypothesis. Such tasks cause increased confidence in the hypothesis at the expense of viable alternatives because of changes in problem representation, evidence evaluation, and information search that take place when the hypothesis is temporarily treated as if it were true.
journal_name
Psychol Bulljournal_title
Psychological bulletinauthors
Koehler DJdoi
10.1037/0033-2909.110.3.499subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1991-11-01 00:00:00pages
499-519issue
3eissn
0033-2909issn
1939-1455journal_volume
110pub_type
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1037/0033-2909.108.3.462
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1037/0033-2909.129.4.545
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1037/0033-2909.112.1.64
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pub_type: 评论,杂志文章
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
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pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
doi:10.1037/a0035661
更新日期:2014-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1037/0033-2909.120.3.323
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi:10.1037/bul0000025
更新日期:2016-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1037/0033-2909.107.3.385
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
doi:10.1037/a0021212
更新日期:2010-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi:10.1037/bul0000005
更新日期:2015-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1037/a0018726
更新日期:2010-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1037/0033-2909.125.6.701
更新日期:1999-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1037/0033-2909.126.6.873
更新日期:2000-11-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1037/0033-2909.126.1.55
更新日期:2000-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
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更新日期:2010-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi:10.1037/bul0000081
更新日期:2017-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1037/bul0000009
更新日期:2015-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 评论,杂志文章
doi:10.1037/a0019215
更新日期:2010-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1037/0033-2909.129.5.698
更新日期:2003-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
doi:10.1037/a0028324
更新日期:2012-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1037/bul0000129
更新日期:2017-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Psychological bulletin
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1037/0033-2909.114.1.80
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1037/0033-2909.133.1.46
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