Ideals and Category Typicality

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1092-1112

  Kim, ShinWoo ^a   Murphy, Gregory L ^b  

^a Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories; Goals; Ideals; Perspective taking; Typicality

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GOALS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 80052834644     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023916     Document Type: Article

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