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Frank Keil

Department of Psychology

P.O. Box 208205

New Haven, CT 06520-8205

United States

  • Department of Psychology

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Scholarly Papers (7)

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1.

Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 15 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2018
Jiewen Zhang, Frank Keil and Samuel Johnson
University of California, Davis - Department of Psychology, Yale University - Department of Psychology and University of Bath - School of Management
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Intuitive theories, Folk psychology, Judgment & decision-making, Behavioral economics

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Belief Digitization: Do We Treat Uncertainty as Probabilities or as Bits?

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Jul 2018
Samuel Johnson, Tom Merchant and Frank Keil
University of Bath - School of Management, Brown University - Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences and Yale University - Department of Psychology
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Probability, Bayesian Modeling, Judgment, Reasoning, Decision-Making, Prediction

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Simplicity and Complexity Preferences in Causal Explanation: An Opponent Heuristic Account

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Jun 2018
Samuel Johnson, J. J. Valenti and Frank Keil
University of Bath - School of Management, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Yale University - Department of Psychology
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Causal reasoning, explanation, inference, understanding, simplicity

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Consumers’ Beliefs about the Effects of Trade

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Aug 2019
Samuel Johnson, Frank Keil and Jiewen Zhang
University of Bath - School of Management, Yale University - Department of Psychology and University of California, Davis - Department of Psychology
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lay economics, intuitive theories, consumer beliefs, moral judgment and decision-making, international marketing, trade, country-of-origin effects

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A Right Way to Explain? Function, Mechanism, and the Order of Explanations

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Sep 2022
Amanda M. McCarthy and Frank Keil
Yale University and Yale University - Department of Psychology
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explanation, function, mechanism, hierarchy, causal explanations, teleology

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Adults' Learning of Complex Explanations Violates Their Intuitions About Optimal Explanatory Order

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Aug 2023
Amanda M. McCarthy, Nicole Betz and Frank Keil
Yale University, Yale University and Yale University - Department of Psychology
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Learning, teaching, explanation, function, mechanism, teleology

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Teleology Predicts Intuitive Judgments of Liability

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 May 2026
Maureen Gill and Frank Keil
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Yale University - Department of Psychology
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teleology, artifact function, morality, legal reasoning, liability