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Mov Disord Clin Pract
December 2024
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, TU Dresden, Smell and Taste Clinic, Dresden, Germany.
BJOG
December 2024
Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.
Cognition
January 2025
Villanova University, 800 E. Lancaster Ave, Tolentine Hall room 334, Villanova, PA 19085, USA. Electronic address:
Wilson et al. (2025) report a failed attempt to replicate the reductive allure effect: Unlike prior work, they do not find that participants judged explanations of scientific phenomena to be higher quality when they contained irrelevant reductive language. The current commentary considers three possible reasons for this failure to replicate: (1) a change in the nature of online study participants, (2) a change in the background knowledge that people bring to judgments of scientific explanations, and (3) a change in the kinds of explanations that people find satisfying.
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November 2024
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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