continuum of inductive potential from low (relatively minimal categories whose members are dissimilar) to high (coherent meaningful categories whose members are similar) above a cartoon child. an icon of a tiger appears under "high" inductive potential, with "closes eyes when happy" appearing as a feature of a tiger in a zoo, with an arrow pointing to the tiger icon, and a dashed arrow extending it to a tiger on a savanna. an icon of a pedestrian appears under "low" inductive potential, with "closes eyes when happy" appearing as a feature of a woman on a street, with Xs over arrows pointing to the pedestrian icon, and to a different pedestrian.
📣 new paper! people use some categories to generalize (e.g., we generalize something we learn about one tiger 🐯 to other tigers 🐅), but not others (e.g., we don't generalize from one pedestrian 🚶 to other pedestrians 🚶♂️). how do people learn what categories allow for generalization? 🧵
31.07.2025 06:10
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SPP abstracts for the 50th Anniversary Meeting are due in one month, with a great lineup of speakers and events!
31.12.2023 17:26
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This is so amazing!
20.12.2023 00:51
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Still stunned that @levelsof.bsky.social and I got this "band" back together for a CDS preconf. CDS registration opens soon so register quick while seats last! 🙏🙏to Susan Gelman, Larry Hirschfeld, Scott Atran, Susan Carey, Alison Gopnik, Paul Harris, Frank Keil, Alan Leslie, Liz Spelke Henry Wellman
14.12.2023 22:09
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My thoughts on AI alignment. In the @newyorkers.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/science/anna...
29.11.2023 13:57
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Out today!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
20.11.2023 20:18
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Reposting here!
New paper with @ktvasq.bsky.social, Emily Gerdin, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in JEP: General:
"Expectations of intergroup empathy bias emerge by early childhood"
psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
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