Owning up to the role of historical information.
Although the inherence heuristic is a versatile cognitive process that addresses a wide range of psychological phenomena, we propose that ownership information represents an important test case for evaluating both the boundaries of Cimpian & Salomon's (C&S's) model (e.g., is the inherence heuristic meaningfully limited to only inherent factors?) and its effectiveness as a mechanism for explaining psychological essentialism.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,University of Louisville,Louisville,KY 40292.n.noles@louisville.eduhttp://louisville.edu/psychology/nolesj.danovitch@louisville.eduhttp://louisville.edu/psychology/danovitch.
Nicholaus S
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Noles
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,University of Louisville,Louisville,KY 40292.n.noles@louisville.eduhttp://louisville.edu/psychology/nolesj.danovitch@louisville.eduhttp://louisville.edu/psychology/danovitch.
Judith H
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Danovitch
D003071:Cognition; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008128:Logic