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Deep thinking in children: The case for knowledge change in analogical development
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two of the terms in the three-relation (see sect. 3.5). Hence, 3-year-olds default to the more familiar judgment (Frye et al. 1996) and make the realist error of concluding that everyone will see the situation as it really is. Another a...
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Efforts to Encourage Multidisciplinarity in the Cognitive Science Society.
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Schunn, Crowley, and Okada (this issue) have documented a situation that naturally concerns all of us, the extent to which the journal Cognitive Science and the annual meetings of the Cognitive Science Society represent the multidiscipl...
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Lessons from Analogical Reasoning in the Teaching of Negotiation
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After two decades of spectacular growth in negotiation research, teaching,and application, it is appropriate to pause and consider how negotiatorslearn, a strikingly fundamental but infrequently examined issue. In thisreport, we present...
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An Influence of Spatial Language on Recognition Memory for Spatial Scenes
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Whether and how much the routine use of language influences thought is a perennially fascinating question in cognitive science . The current paper addresses this issue by examiningwhether the presence of spatial language influences the ...
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The analogical mind : perspectives from cognitive science
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Analogy has been the focus of extensive research in cognitive science over the past two decades. Through analogy, novel situations and problems can be understood in terms of familiar ones. Indeed, a case can be made for analogical proce...
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Avoiding Missed Opportunities in Managerial Life: Analogical Training More Powerful Than Individual Case Training
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Abstract We examined the ability of Masters of Management students to transfer knowledge gained from case studies to face-to-face negotiation tasks. During a study phase, students either read two cases and gave advice to the protagonist...
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