The two faces of typicality in category-based induction

Cognition

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-200

  Murphy, Gregory L ^a   Ross, Brian H ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Induction; Judgment; Representativeness; Typicality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 13444274631     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.01.009     Document Type: Article

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