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Navarro, Daniel J.; Dry, Matthew J.; Lee, Michael D. – Cognitive Science, 2012
Inductive generalization, where people go beyond the data provided, is a basic cognitive capability, and it underpins theoretical accounts of learning, categorization, and decision making. To complete the inductive leap needed for generalization, people must make a key "sampling" assumption about how the available data were generated.…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Generalization, Sampling, Learning
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Lai, Lufanna C. H.; Cummins, Robert A. – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Two studies investigate subjective wellbeing (SWB) homeostasis. The first investigates the contribution of job satisfaction (JS) and partner satisfaction (PS) to the homeostatic defense of SWB. The extant model of homeostasis does not include either variable. The second study investigates the relationship between Homeostatically Protected Mood…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Individual Differences, Foreign Countries