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    "pk": 28841,
    "title": "Family Resemblance in Unsupervised Categorization: A Dissociation Between\nProduction and Evaluation",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "A plurality of the categories we hold exhibit family\nresemblance (FR; i.e., many characteristic but few defining\nfeatures), suggesting FR may occupy a central role in human\ncategory formation. However, research in unsupervised\nlearning has shown that when people are asked to sort an\narray of novel items into categories, they ubiquitously use a\nunidimensional (UNI) rule – despite the availability of a FR\nsolution. This work suggests that, perhaps, FR similarity is\nnot a core tendency in category formation. Here, we question\nwhether the UNI bias is a result of the sorting paradigm.\nSpecifically, we speculate the paradigm conflates two\ncomponents vital for category formation: production and\nevaluation. Across three experiments we show that when\nevaluation is separated from generation – by using a novel\nforced-choice task that pits different category organizational\nschemes against one another – people exhibit a FR over UNI\npreference. The implications of these results are discussed.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "unsupervised categorization; similarity; family\nresemblance; unidimensional bias; category construction"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4909d75j",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "John",
            "middle_name": "D.",
            "last_name": "Patterson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Binghamton University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Sean",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Snoddy",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Binghamton University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Kenneth",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Kurtz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Binghamton University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}