Why some surprises are more surprising than others: Surprise as a metacognitive sense of explanatory difficulty.

Volume: 81, Pages: 74 - 116
Published: Sep 1, 2015
Abstract
Early theories of surprise, including Darwin's, argued that it was predominantly a basic emotion. Recently, theories have taken a more cognitive view of surprise, casting it as a process of making sense of surprising null The current paper advances the view that the essence of this sense-making process is explanation; specifically, that people's perception of surprise is a metacognitive estimate of the cognitive work involved in explaining an...
Paper Details
Title
Why some surprises are more surprising than others: Surprise as a metacognitive sense of explanatory difficulty.
Published Date
Sep 1, 2015
Volume
81
Pages
74 - 116
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