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Direct linkJoo, Sehrang; Yousif, Sami R.; Keil, Frank C. – Cognitive Science, 2022
Adults and children 'promiscuously' endorse teleological answers to 'why' questions--a tendency linked to arguments that humans are intuitively theistic and naturally unscientific. But how do people arrive at an endorsement of a teleological answer? Here, we show that the endorsement of teleological answers need not imply unscientific reasoning (n…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Intuition, Preferences, Adults
