>From Science 12 Aug 2016:: A decade ago, it seemed as though every other neuroscience paper in > high-profile journals featured multiple multicolored images of brain scans. > In some cases, readers—many of whom were psychologists who had written > papers on the same topic—pointed out that the pictographic scans added > little explanatory power. Hopkins *et al.* have extended an earlier study > of the relative impact of psychology and neuroscience to encompass both > more reductive disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, and biology, and > less reductive disciplines, such as social science. They find that study > subjects judge scientific explanations to be of higher quality when they > contain information from the neighboring more reductive field, even when > that information is irrelevant. > *Cognition* *155*, 67 (2016).
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