The downside of categories

Gregory L. Murphy

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2003.10.011

The downside of categories

Gregory L. Murphy

Psychology

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Abstract

One of the primary uses of categories is to draw inferences about novel objects based on their category membership. In a recent study, Lagnado and Shanks show that people make different inferences about an object depending on whether they first categorize the object at a general or specific level. Indeed, their inference changes even though they have been given no information about the object. This finding reveals limitations of category-based induction.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	513-514
Number of pages	2
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	7
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2003.10.011
State	Published - Dec 2003

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience

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