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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>by Zoë&#0160;Pollock</em></span></p>
<p>Is&#0160;<a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/2012/04/07/hunters-of-myths-why-our-brains-love-origins/" target="_self">hardwired</a>:</p>
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<p>Some types of explanations are more satisfying to our minds than others. Simpler ones, as a rule, win out over more complicated: We will take the more direct of two equally good explanations—and may even overturn a slightly better but more complex one for a slightly worse but more straightforward one. And the more coherent, the more story-like and narrative-driven, the better – especially if it also explains a number of factors at once.&#0160;</p>
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