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Does "Different" Imply a Difference? A Comparison of Two Tasks
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One of the most interesting predictions of structure-mapping theory (Gentner, 1983) is that differences are more easily identified when the comparison involves stimuli that are easily aligned. Evidence for this claim comes from studies ...
Publication · 5d
Relations, Objects, and the Composition of Analogies
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This research addresses the kinds of matching elements that determine analogical relatedness and literal similarity. Despite theoretical agreement on the importance of relational match, the empirical evidence is neither systematic nor d...
Publication · 5d
Systematicity as a Processing Constraint on Feature Centrality
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Systematicity as a Processing Constraint on Feature Centrality Jason Jameson & Dedre Gentner Department of Psychology Northwestern University Introduction In judging the similarity of two objects, are some features more central than oth...
Publication · 5d
Conceptual centrality and the role of comparison
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Conceptual Centrality and the Role of Comparison Jason Jameson Dedre Gentner Department of Psychology Northwestern University Keywords: Conceptual centrality; similarity; categorization; comparison; structure-mapping. Introduction Compo...
Publication · 5d
Hidden Structure: Indirect Measurement of Relational Representation
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Structured mental representations underlie much of human cognitive ability. However, research has repeatedly found that people are generally quite poor at spontaneously applying structure acquired from one kind of situation to a dissimi...
Publication · 5d
On apples and oranges: Structural alignment in the selection of social comparison standards
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The selection of social comparison standards is traditionally assumed to be guided by similarity between the self and the comparison standard. Despite the theoretical and empirical prominence of this similarity hypothesis, however, rela...
Publication · 5d