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05/16/2022
The Diversity of Argument-Making in the Wild: from Assumptions and Definitions to Causation and Anecdote in Reddit's "Change My View"
What kinds of arguments do people make, and what effect do they have on ...
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10/01/2021
The Cognitive Science of Extremist Ideologies Online
Extremist ideologies are finding new homes in online forums. These serve...
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06/03/2020
From Probability to Consilience: How Explanatory Values Implement Bayesian Reasoning
Recent work in cognitive science has uncovered a diversity of explanator...
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03/31/2020
Explosive Proofs of Mathematical Truths
Mathematical proofs are both paradigms of certainty and some of the most...
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07/02/2019
How we do things with words: Analyzing text as social and cultural data
In this article we describe our experiences with computational text anal...
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04/16/2019
Sameness Attracts, Novelty Disturbs, but Outliers Flourish in Fanfiction Online
The nature of what people enjoy is not just a central question for the c...
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12/10/2018
Lévy Flights of the Collective Imagination
We present a structured random-walk model that captures key aspects of h...
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09/21/2018
Opacity, Obscurity, and the Geometry of Question-Asking
Asking questions is a pervasive human activity, but little is understood...
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02/26/2018
The Development of Darwin's Origin of Species
From 1837, when he returned to England aboard the HMS Beagle, to 1860, j...
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09/23/2015
Exploration and Exploitation of Victorian Science in Darwin's Reading Notebooks
Search in an environment with an uncertain distribution of resources inv...
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09/25/2014
Optimal high-level descriptions of dynamical systems
To analyze high-dimensional systems, many fields in science and engineer...
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10/31/2013