Inductive reasoning entails using existing knowledge to make predictions about novel
cases. The first part of this review summarizes key inductive phenomena and critically …

In the previous chapter, we have proposed that fluency increases with typicality and
decreases with conceptual ambiguity (postulate 11.2). When the object has been …

Many decision making tasks in life involve a categorization process, but the effects of
categorization on subsequent decision making has rarely been studied. This issue was …

What is the role of linguistic labels in inductive generalization? According to one approach
labels denote categories and differ from object features, whereas according to another …

Studies focusing on unsupervised categorization and sorting behavior have traditionally
identified and empirically isolated a few select strategies frequently employed by observers …

MANY HIGHLY REGARDED WINEMAKERS IN Alsace broke ranks with the highly
technicized modern approach to winemaking and adopted the seemingly irrational practices …

Categories often have unobservable diagnostic features. For example, if a person is a
lawyer, one might expect him to be both well dressed and knowledgeable about the law …

The current research applies decision-making theory to the problem of increasing uptake of
energy-efficient technologies, where uptake is currently slower than one might predict …

In the past two decades, human categorisation research has achieved significant progress
via the rigorous and systematic study of concepts in terms of category structures and their …

In a highly systematic literature, researchers have investigated the manner in which people
make feature inferences in paradigms involving uncertain categorizations (eg, Griffiths …