Psychological universals, or core mental attributes shared by humans everywhere, are a
foundational postulate of psychology, yet explicit analysis of how to identify such universals …

Categorization models based on laboratory research focus on a narrower range of
explanatory constructs than appears necessary for explaining the structure of natural …

Psychology must confront the bias in its broad literature toward the study of participants
developing in environments unrepresentative of the vast majority of the world's population …

The impressive recent performance of large language models has led many to wonder to
what extent they can serve as models of general intelligence or are similar to human …

Analysis and case studies show that including different orientations toward the natural world
makes for more effective scientific practice and science education. The answers to scientific …

Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on
prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories …

This article describes cross-cultural and developmental research on folk biology: that is, the
study of how people conceptualize living kinds. The combination of a conceptual module for …

Abstract Concepts can be organized by their members' similarities, forming a kind (eg,
animal), or by their external relations within scenes or events (eg, cake and candles). This …

Die erste Auflage des Buches entstand zu einem Zeitpunkt, zu dem Allgemeine Psychologie
und kognitive Neurowissenschaften zu verschmelzen begannen. Erkenntnisse aus den …

This paper reviews the main psychological phenomena of inductive reasoning, covering 25
years of experimental and model-based research, in particular addressing four questions …