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    "pk": 33118,
    "title": "Causal Structure in Categorization",
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    "abstract": "What role does causal knowledge play in \ncategorization? The current study tested the \nhypothesis that weight given to features is \ndetermined by the specific role they play within a \ncausal structure. After learning typical symptoms of \na disease, participants were asked to judge the \nlikelihood that new patients had that disease. Half \nof the patients were missing one of the typical \nsymptoms, and the other half had an extra symptom \n(a symptom typical of an alternative disease). For \npatients with a missing symptom, likelihood ratings \nwere lower if the missing symptom was a cause of \nother symptoms than if it was an effect. However, \nfor patients with an extra symptom, there was no \ndifference between likelihood ratings when the extra \nsymptom was a cause or an effect. These results \nsuggest one mechanism underlying differences \nbetween experts and novices in categorization, and \nsuggest an explanation for why different kinds of \nfeatures (e. g., molecular or functional) are \nimportant for different kinds of categories (e.g., \nnatural kinds or artifacts).",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "17",
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        {
            "first_name": "Woo-kyoung",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ahn",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Illinois",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Mary",
            "middle_name": "E .",
            "last_name": "Lassaline",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Louisville",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1995-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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