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Being Practical: The Uses and Payoffs of Social Explanation explanations themselves are useful. What sorts of problem do they help to solve and how do they do this? We may resort to social explanation out of idle curiosity. But, generally, social explanation is itself socially caused. It tends to be motivated by an emotionally disturbing experience of the u