Environment and goals jointly direct category acquisition

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 195-199

  Love, Bradley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories; Clusters; Goals; Learning; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744537073     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2005.00363.x     Document Type: Article

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