Distracted by the brain
About a year ago, I referred readers to Paul Bloom’s discussion of Deena Skolnick‘s study of how mixing in a bit of irrelevant talk about neuroscience “turned bad [psychological] explanations into satisfactory ones” (“Blinded by neuroscience“, 6/28/2006). Now a paper documenting that research is in press: Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Frank C. Keil, Joshua Goodstein, Elizabeth Rawson, & Jeremy R. Gray, “The seductive allure of neuroscience explanation“, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
So writes Mark Liberman.
(Thanks to investigator Julia Lunetta for bringing this to our attention.)