Partial mental simulation explains fallacies in physical reasoning (Exp 1)
Participants watch short animations of a gray cannonball and a pink sphere above a grassy field with a hole, then rate the likelihood of various physical outcomes on 0-100 sliders. Each block asks a different probability question (e.g., hit, grass, conjunction, and conditional outcomes) across 15 scenes.
Physical ReasoningProbabilistic JudgmentVideo
Study metadata
- Authors
- Ilona Bass, Kevin A. Smith, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Tomer D. Ullman
- Source
- Bass, I., Smith, K. A., Bonawitz, E., & Ullman, T. D. (2021). Partial mental simulation explains fallacies in physical reasoning. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 38(7–8), 413–424. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2022.2083950
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- bass2022partial-exp1