What a Loaded Generalization: Generics and Social Cognition
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This paper explores the role of generics in social cognition. First, we explore the nature and effects of the most common form of generics about social kinds (descriptive generics). Second, we discuss the nature and effects of a less common but equally important form of generics about social kinds (normative generics). Finally, we consider the implications of this discussion for how we ought to use language about the social world.
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- Wodak, D., Leslie, S., & Rhodes, M.
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- New York University (US)
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- Wodak, Daniel
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- Philosophy Compass
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- Wiley
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- 2015-09
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- 10
- Issue
- 9
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- 625-635
- ISSN
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- National Science Foundation (BCS-1226942)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Keywords
- generics, social cognition, social kinds, generalization
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