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    "pk": 25413,
    "title": "Folk Judgments of Normality: Part Statistical, Part Evaluative",
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    "abstract": "Existing research has emphasized the importance of normality\njudgments in many aspects of cognition and life (e.g., causal\ncognition, gradable adjectives, cooperative behavior). Yet\nlittle work has explored how people actually come to\nunderstand what sorts of things are normal. We argue that\npeople’s normality intuitions reflect a mixture of statistical\nand evaluative considerations. Specifically, we suggest that\npeople’s intuitions about what is normal can be influenced by\nrepresentations both of the average and of the ideal. We test\nthis idea in three experiments. Experiment 1a demonstrates\nthat explicit judgments of normality reflect this mixture of\nstatistical and evaluative considerations. Experiments 1b and\n2 then show that the hybrid notion that comes out in these\nexplicit judgments can also explain people’s judgments about\ngradable adjectives. Taken together, these findings have\npotential implications not only for normality judgments\nthemselves, but also for the many other mental activities that\nthese judgments impact.",
    "language": "eng",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "normality; moral cognition; experimental\nphilosophy"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Adam",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bear",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Psychology, Yale",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Joshua",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Knobe",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Philosophy, Yale",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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