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Direct linkJönsson, Martin L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Hampton (1988) discovered that people are subject to "overextension"--they categorize some things as falling under a conjunction (e.g., they categorize chess as a "sport which is also a game") but not as falling under both of the corresponding conjuncts (e.g., they do not categorize chess as a "sport"). Although…
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