Liefgreen, A;
Lagnado, D;
(2021)
The role of causal models in evaluating simple and complex legal explanations.
In:
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
(pp. pp. 2316-2322).
Cognitive Science Society (CSS)
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Abstract
Despite the increase in studies investigating people’s explanatory preferences in the domains of psychology and philosophy, little is known about their preferences in more applied domains, such as the criminal justice system. We show that when people evaluate competing legal accounts of the same evidence that vary in complexity, their explanatory preferences are affected by: i) whether they are required to draw causal models of the evidence, and ii) the actual structure that is drawn. Although previous research has shown that people can reason correctly about causality, ours is one of the first studies that shows that generating and drawing causal models directly affects people’s evaluations of explanations.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | The role of causal models in evaluating simple and complex legal explanations |
| Event: | 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qj722n8 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Explanation; causal models; evidential reasoning; simplicity; mechanism |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10158545 |
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