The distinction between rules and similarity is central to our understanding of much of
cognitive psychology. Two aspects of existing research have motivated the present work …

We address the problem of predicting how people will spontaneously divide into groups a
set of novel items. This is a process akin to perceptual organization. We therefore employ …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to resolve and remove from the governance arena in
general and the project arena in particular, conflict which occurs when parties do not realise …

Recent research suggests that when people retrieve information from memory they tend to
fixate on the location where the information had appeared during encoding. We used this …

Abstract The transformation paradigm (Rips, 1989) was used to contrast causal homeostasis
and strict essentialist beliefs about biological kinds. Participants read scenarios describing …

On prototypes as defaults (Comment on Connolly, Fodor, Gleitman and Gleitman, 2007) -
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Shepard promotes the important view that evolution constructs cognitive mechanisms that
work with internalized aspects of the structure of their environment. But what can this …

The current study examines causal essentialism, derived from psychological essentialism of
concepts. We examine whether people believe that members of a category share some …

Shepard's Response On the possibility of universal mental laws: A reply to my critics Page 1
Table 1. Commentators for special sleep and dreams issue Target article and precommentary …

In general, we agree with Pothos's claim that similarity and rule knowledge are best viewed
as situated on the extreme points of a single representational continuum. However, we …