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| Douglas L MedinSummaryAffiliation: Northwestern University Country: USA Publications
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Folkbiology of freshwater fishDouglas L Medin
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, 220 Swift Hall, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Cognition 99:237-73. 2006..At a minimum the results suggest that similar activities within a well-structured domain do not necessarily lead to common conceptualizations...- A relevance theory of inductionDouglas L Medin
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 2710, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 10:517-32. 2003..The relation between the relevance framework and existing models of category-based inductive reasoning is discussed in the light of these findings... - The native mind: biological categorization and reasoning in development and across culturesDouglas L Medin
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60209 2710, USA
Psychol Rev 111:960-83. 2004..Certain phenomena are robust across populations, consistent with notions of a core module... - Ideal is typicalRussell C Burnett
Northwestern University, USA
Can J Exp Psychol 59:3-10. 2005..For knowledgeable reasoners typicality in natural taxonomic categories appears based on ideals rather than on centrality... 
Anthropocentrism is not the first step in children's reasoning about the natural worldPatricia Herrmann
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:9979-84. 2010....
What does it mean to 'live' and 'die'? A cross-linguistic analysis of parent-child conversations in English and IndonesianErin M Leddon
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Br J Dev Psychol 29:375-95. 2011..Our analysis illustrates that young children acquiring English and Indonesian are faced with distinct problems, but that parental input in both languages does little to support the acquisition of broad, inclusive biological concepts...- Naming practices and the acquisition of key biological concepts: evidence from English and IndonesianFlorencia K Anggoro
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Psychol Sci 19:314-9. 2008..This work underscores the importance of considering language and cultural factors in studying the acquisition of fundamental concepts about the biological world... - Are morally motivated decision makers insensitive to the consequences of their choices?Daniel M Bartels
Northwestern University, IL 60208, USA
Psychol Sci 18:24-8. 2007..These and other findings call into question important presumed properties of PVs, suggesting that how PVs affect willingness to make trade-offs depends on where attention is focused, a factor that varies substantially across contexts... - Induction as conditional probability judgmentSergey V Blok
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Mem Cognit 35:1353-64. 2007..An algebraic formulation with no free parameters accurately predicted conditional probabilities for single- and two-premise conditionals (Experiments 1 and 3), as well as problems involving negative evidence (Experiment 2)... - Moral kinematics: the role of physical factors in moral judgmentsRumen I Iliev
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, 2029 Sheridan Road, 219 Swift Hall, Evanston, IL 60208 2710, USA
Mem Cognit 40:1387-401. 2012..Experiment 3 extended the findings from Experiment 1 to verbally presented moral dilemmas. These results suggest that domain-general processes play a larger role in moral cognition than is currently assumed... - Weirdness is in the eye of the beholderWill M Bennis
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Behav Brain Sci 33:85-6. 2010..We argue that WEIRD people's apparent distinct weirdness is a methodological side-effect of psychology's over-reliance on WEIRD populations for developing its methods and theoretical constructs... - Sinning saints and saintly sinners: the paradox of moral self-regulationSonya Sachdeva
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Psychol Sci 20:523-8. 2009..We suggest that affirming a moral identity leads people to feel licensed to act immorally. However, when moral identity is threatened, moral behavior is a means to regain some lost self-worth... - Cultural mosaics and mental models of natureMegan Bang
TERC, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:13868-74. 2007.... - The cultural mind: environmental decision making and cultural modeling within and across populationsScott Atran
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
Psychol Rev 112:744-76. 2005..This framework addresses several methodological issues, such as limitations on conceiving culture to be a well-defined system, bounded entity, independent variable, or an internalized component of minds... - Protected values: no omission bias and no framing effectsCarmen Tanner
Social and Business Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Psychon Bull Rev 11:185-91. 2004..PVs were more likely to be associated with moral obligations to act than with moral prohibitions against action. Strikingly, people with strong PVs were immune to framing; participants with few PVs showed robust framing effects... - A bird's eye view: biological categorization and reasoning within and across culturesJeremy N Bailenson
Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 9660, USA
Cognition 84:1-53. 2002..These findings also show that relative expertise leads to a convergence of thought that transcends cultural boundaries and shared experiences...