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  1. All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Religious: Supernatural Explanations as Abstract and Useful Falsehoods about Complex Realities.Aaron D. Lightner & Edward H. Hagen - 2022 - Human Nature 33 (4):425-462.
    Many cognitive and evolutionary theories of religion argue that supernatural explanations are byproducts of our cognitive adaptations. An influential argument states that our supernatural explanations result from a tendency to generate anthropomorphic explanations, and that this tendency is a byproduct of an error management strategy because agents tend to be associated with especially high fitness costs. We propose instead that anthropomorphic and other supernatural explanations result as features of a broader toolkit of well-designed cognitive adaptations, which are designed for explaining (...)
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  • Adults' learning of complex explanations violates their intuitions about optimal explanatory order.Amanda M. McCarthy, Nicole Betz & Frank C. Keil - 2024 - Cognition 246 (C):105767.
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  • Are ethical explanations explanatory? Meta-ethical beliefs shape judgments about explanations for social change.Casey Lewry, George Tsai & Tania Lombrozo - 2024 - Cognition 250 (C):105860.
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