Human-centered evaluation of explanations

J Boyd-Graber, S Carton, S Feng, QV Liao… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
The NLP community are increasingly interested in providing explanations for NLP models to
help people make sense of model behavior and potentially improve human interaction with …

The role of culture and evolution for human cognition

A Bender - Topics in cognitive science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Since the emergence of our species at least, natural selection based on genetic variation
has been replaced by culture as the major driving force in human evolution. It has made us …

Conviction narrative theory: A theory of choice under radical uncertainty

SGB Johnson, A Bilovich, D Tuckett - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023 - cambridge.org
Conviction Narrative Theory (CNT) is a theory of choice under radical uncertainty–situations
where outcomes cannot be enumerated and probabilities cannot be assigned. Whereas …

Inside Ockham's razor: A mechanism driving preferences for simpler explanations

TH Vrantsidis, T Lombrozo - Memory & Cognition, 2024 - Springer
People often prefer simpler explanations, defined as those that posit the presence of fewer
causes (eg, positing the presence of a single cause, Cause A, rather than two causes …

Incels, autism, and hopelessness: affective incorporation of online interaction as a challenge for phenomenological psychopathology

SK Tirkkonen, D Vespermann - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Recent research has drawn attention to the prevalence of self-reported autism within online
communities of involuntary celibates (incels). These studies suggest that some individuals …

[HTML][HTML] SimplifEx: Simplifying and Explaining Linear Programs

C Ott, F Jäkel - Cognitive Systems Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Linear Programming is one of the most common methods for finding optimal solutions to
complex problems. Despite its extensive use, solutions are not usually accompanied by …

[HTML][HTML] Building compressed causal models of the world

D Kinney, T Lombrozo - Cognitive Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
A given causal system can be represented in a variety of ways. How do agents determine
which variables to include in their causal representations, and at what level of granularity …

Editors' review and introduction: Levels of explanation in cognitive science: From molecules to culture

M Colombo, M Knauff - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cognitive science began as a multidisciplinary endeavor to understand how the mind works.
Since the beginning, cognitive scientists have been asking questions about the right …

Explainable agency: human preferences for simple or complex explanations

M Blom, R Singh, T Miller, L Sonenberg… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Research in cognitive psychology has established that whether people prefer simpler
explanations to complex ones is context dependent, but the question ofsimple vs …

Goal inference in moral narratives

JS Kim, C Colombatto, MJ Crockett - Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
We often form beliefs about others based on narratives they tell about their own moral
actions. When constructing such moral narratives, narrators balance multiple goals, such as …