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Ideals Aren't Always Typical: Dissociating Goodness-of-Exemplar From Typicality Judgments

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Items that are rated good examples of a category have generally been assumed to be highly typical as well.However, most previous studies have used categories defined by simple features in which exemplar goodness and typicality are strongly related.We report a study using categories based on the relationships between features instead of the features themselves, allowing manipulation of relational ideals independent of featural central tendencies.Goodness-of-exemplar (GOE) judgments were based on relational ideals, whereas typicality judgments were based on a mix of ideals and featural central tendencies.These results indicate that exemplar goodness and typicality can lead to two distinct forms of graded category structure, and should not be treated as equivalent.

Source: eScholarship (California Digital Library)

Authors: Keith J. Holyoak, John E. Hummel, Aniket Kittur

Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: English

Topic: Categorization, perception, and language

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: Collaborative Research--Coherence-based Decision Making: A Theoretical Framework and Practical Implications.

OpenAlex ID: W2767556146

FWCI: 0.53

Cites: 19

Cited by: 11

Related to: 10