A bird's eye view: Biological categorization and reasoning within and across cultures

Cognition

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-53

  Bailenson, Jeremy N ^a   Shum, Michael S ^b   Atran, Scott ^c,d   Medin, Douglas L ^b   Coley, John D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological categorization; Cross cultural differences; Expertise; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CATEGORIZATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

BEHAVIOR; BIRD; COGNITION; CONTRAST; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SPECIES; TAXONOMY; THINKING;

EID: 0036225599     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00011-2     Document Type: Article

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