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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Impact of Explanation Seeking on Learning and Categorization

This chapter explores how the process of seeking explanations affects individuals' ability to categorize robots. It reveals that participants who engage in explanation seeking demonstrate a heightened skill in identifying nuanced differences between robot categories, suggesting a positive link between explaining and learning.

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