Lombrozo, Tania

Explanatory Preferences Shape Learning and Inference

Lombrozo, T. (2016) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentPhilosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation

Cited by 229

Inferring Design: Evidence of a Preference for Teleological Explanations in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease

Lombrozo, T., Kelemen, D., & Zaitchik, D. (2007) · Psychological Science

Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentEvolution and Science Education

Cited by 158

The Instrumental Value of Explanations

Lombrozo, T. (2011) · Philosophy Compass

Philosophy of Biology and Scientific ExplanationEpistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

Cited by 118

The hazards of explanation: Overgeneralization in the face of exceptions.

Williams, J. J., Lombrozo, T., & Rehder, B. (2013) · Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Visual and Cognitive Learning ProcessesCategorization, perception, and language

Cited by 88

Explaining the moral of the story

Walker, C. M., & Lombrozo, T. (2017) · Cognition

Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentLanguage Development and Disorders

Cited by 71

Fostering Appropriate Reliance on Large Language Models: The Role of Explanations, Sources, and Inconsistencies

Kim, S. S. Y., Vaughan, J. W., Liao, Q. V., Lombrozo, T., & Russakovsky, O. (2025) · Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)Information Retrieval and Search Behavior

Cited by 58

Explanation recruits comparison in a category-learning task

Edwards, B. J., Williams, J. J., Gentner, D., & Lombrozo, T. (2019) · Cognition

Categorization, perception, and languageVisual and Cognitive Learning Processes

Cited by 34

The Puzzle of Belief

Van Leeuwen, N., & Lombrozo, T. (2023) · Cognitive Science

Epistemology, Ethics, and MetaphysicsPhilosophy and Theoretical Science

Cited by 32

Mechanistic versus Functional Understanding

Lombrozo, T., & Wilkenfeld, D. (2019) · Varieties of Understanding

Philosophy of Biology and Scientific ExplanationPhilosophy and Theoretical Science

Cited by 29

Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

Liu, R., Geng, J., Wu, A. J., Sucholutsky, I., Lombrozo, T., & Griffiths, T. L. (2024) · arXiv

Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing Techniques

Cited by 6