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Direct linkPatalano, Andrea L.; Chin-Parker, Seth; Ross, Brian H. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Category-based inference is crucial for using past experiences to make sense of new ones. One challenge to inference of this kind is that most entities in the world belong to multiple categories (e.g., a jogger, a professor, and a vegetarian). We tested the hypothesis that the "degree of coherence" of a category-the degree to which category…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Inferences, Social Influences, Classification
