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These confabulations are guaranteed to save your marriage! Toward a teleological theory of confabulation
2020-05-25
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<p>Confabulation is typically understood to be dysfunctional. But this understanding neglects the phenomenon's potential benefits. In fact, we think that the benefits of non-clinical confabulation provide a better foundation for a general account of confabulation. In this paper, we start from these benefits to develop a social teleological account of confabulation. Central to our account is the idea that confabula...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5227405d-d5f9-5b39-b130-4fbb9a2d7d41
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/huywk