Sentences with phrase «killjoy explanations»

For example, Sara Shettleworth, a psychologist at the University of Toronto in Canada, argued in a widely cited 2010 article entitled, «Clever animals and killjoy explanations in comparative psychology,» that the zookeepers and researchers who observed Santino's stone - throwing over the course of a decade had not seen him gathering the stones, and thus could not know why he originally starting doing so.

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Not wanting to sound like a killjoy here, but isn't there another possible explanation for this research?