{"pk":28771,"title":"The Inductive Benefit of Being Far Out: How Spatial Location of Evidence\nImpacts Diversity-based Reasoning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Inductive reasoning is constrained by several principles that\ngovern how we choose to generalize evidence to new cases. Here\nwe focus on diversity principle of induction, which describes the\ntendency to favor inductive arguments that include a diverse\nsample of evidence over those that include a homogenous sample\nof evidence. Several studies reveal that adherence to the diversity\nprinciple is influenced by a range of conceptual processes, such\nas an individuals’ prior knowledge or expectations about the\ncategories and properties represented in the evidence. In the two\nexperiments reported here we examined a contextual factor of the\navailable evidence – the spatial separation of evidence exemplars\n– that we expected would impact how people reason about\ndiverse samples. We found that when the pictures (Experiment 1)\nor labels (Experiment 2) used to represent evidence exemplars\nwere presented far apart (approximately 10 cm), participants\nshowed a greater willingness to endorse arguments with diverse\nexemplars than those with homogenous sample, relative to when\nthese exemplars were placed in close proximity (approximately 1\ncm apart). We discuss these results as they relate to existing\nmodels of induction.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Inductive reasoning; Generalization; Diversity\nprinciple; Situated cognition"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2dc6b689","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Chris","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Lawson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee","department":""},{"first_name":"Noah","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wolfe","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28771/galley/18642/download/"}]}