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Spalding, Thomas L.; Gagné, Christina L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Recent research shows that the judged likelihood of properties of modified nouns ("baby ducks have webbed feet") is reduced relative to judgments for unmodified nouns ("ducks have webbed feet"). This modification effect has been taken as evidence both for and against the idea that combined concepts automatically inherit…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Nouns, Inferences, Stereotypes