Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Do the discoveries of cognitive science generalize beyondartificial lab experiments? Or do they have little hope ofhelping us to understand real-world events? Fretting on thisquestion, I bought a copy of the Wall Street Journal andfound that the three front page headlines each connect tomy own research on explanatory reasoning. I report tests ofthe phenomena of inferred evidence, belief digitization, andrevealed truth in real-world contexts derived from theheadlines. If my own corner of cognitive science has suchexplanatory relevance to the real world, then cognitivescience as a whole must be in far better shape yet.