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Hood, Bruce; Gjersoe, Nathalia L.; Bloom, Paul – Cognition, 2012
Philosophers use hypothetical duplication scenarios to explore intuitions about personal identity. Here we examined 5- to 6-year-olds' intuitions about the physical properties and memories of a live hamster that is apparently duplicated by a machine. In Study 1, children thought that more of the original's physical properties than episodic…
Descriptors: Animals, Photography, Reprography, Identification
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Pennycook, Gordon; Fugelsang, Jonathan A.; Koehler, Derek J. – Cognition, 2012
Recent evidence suggests that people are highly efficient at detecting conflicting outputs produced by competing intuitive and analytic reasoning processes. Specifically, De Neys and Glumicic (2008) demonstrated that participants reason longer about problems that are characterized by conflict (as opposed to agreement) between stereotypical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Group Membership, Reaction Time, Conflict
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Malt, Barbara C.; Sloman, Steven A. – Cognition, 2007
Daily experience is filled with objects that have been created by humans to serve specific purposes. For such objects, the very act of creation may be a key element of how people understand them. But exactly how does creator's intention matter? We evaluated its contribution to two forms of categorization: the name selected for an artifact, and…
Descriptors: Intention, Classification, Intuition, Concept Formation