The value of surprise in science

S French, A Murphy - Erkenntnis, 2023 - Springer
… This then leads us to the consideration of the nature and role of surprise in a broader theoretical
context which we explore through the example of Einstein’s derivation of E = mc 2 . Here …

Surprise!… surprise?

E Donchin - Psychophysiology, 1981 - Wiley Online Library
The nature of the psychophysiological enterprise is examined as it bears on the study of the
endogenous … intensity or degree of a process and is thus a valuable asset for the science of …

Surprise in Science: A qualitative study

M Ivanova, B Vaidyanathan - Erkenntnis, 2024 - Springer
… In this paper we offer the first empirical analysis of the role of surprise as an aesthetic
response, drawing from in-depth interviews with 215 scientists in four countries. We identify what …

The cognitive‐evolutionary model of surprise: A review of the evidence

R Reisenzein, G Horstmann… - … in cognitive science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
the self-report of surprise as the central indicator of surprise, … , identify surprise with the
subjective experience of surprise; … if surprise is not straightforwardly identified with the feeling of …

[图书][B] Ignorance and surprise: Science, society, and ecological design

M Gross - 2010 - books.google.com
… This book examines the social prerequisites for surprises, the possibilities of … science
accounts of the role of ignorance and surprise in science and ecology and integrates them with the

Imaginable surprise in global change science

SH Schneider, BL Turner, HM Garriga - Journal of Risk Research, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
… to (or the likelihood of) unexpected events, ‘surprises.’ After brie y and selectively … the
literature on uncertainty and surprise, we adopt a de nition of ‘surprise’ that does not include the

Science and technology advance through surprise

F Shi, J Evans - arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.09370, 2019 - arxiv.org
… , and enough outside to imagine why it should not be surprised. … We suggest how predictability
and surprise in science and … identify the sources of scientific and technological surprise, …

Confronting surprise

R Lempert, S Popper, S Bankes - Social Science Computer …, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
… by the Israeli air force if hostilities ensued in 1967: They were surprised by the extent of the
damage … This cursory discussion provides an initial examination of the nature of surprise. In …

The unexpected aspects of surprise

E Lorini, C Castelfranchi - International Journal of Pattern …, 2006 - World Scientific
the surprise generated by the deeper mismatch between the selected explanation of input
data and the (logical) supports of the … D student in cognitive science at the University of Siena, …

On surprise

P Pylkkö - 1996 - degruyter.com
… For example, the pleasure of artistic surprise cannot ravish us if we haven't learned some firm
… naturalist-associationist view of language which accords with the best of neuroscience can …