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View article: Logical operations shape the formation of implicit attitudes: Evidence from the negation of bipolar and unipolar adjectives
Logical operations shape the formation of implicit attitudes: Evidence from the negation of bipolar and unipolar adjectives Open
Emerging single-process propositional perspectives in psychology and philosophy have introduced the key idea that, much like their explicit (deliberately retrieved) counterparts, implicit (automatically retrieved) attitudes should be sensi…
View article: Polysemy and Inference: Reasoning with Underspecified Representations
Polysemy and Inference: Reasoning with Underspecified Representations Open
Lexical ambiguity has classically been categorized into two kinds. Homonyms are single word forms that map to multiple, unrelated meanings (e.g., “bat” meaning baseball equipment or a flying mammal). Polysemes are single word forms that ma…
View article: The sensitivity of implicit attitude formation to logical operations: Evidence from the bipolar–unipolar distinction
The sensitivity of implicit attitude formation to logical operations: Evidence from the bipolar–unipolar distinction Open
Emerging single-process propositional perspectives in psychology and philosophy have introduced the key idea that, much like their explicit (controlled) counterparts, implicit (automatic) attitudes should reflect logical operations such as…
View article: Logical Operations Shape the Formation of Implicit Attitudes: Evidence From the Negation of Bipolar and Unipolar Adjectives
Logical Operations Shape the Formation of Implicit Attitudes: Evidence From the Negation of Bipolar and Unipolar Adjectives Open
Emerging single-process propositional perspectives in psychology and philosophy have introduced the key idea that, much like their explicit (deliberately retrieved) counterparts, implicit (automatically retrieved) attitudes should be sensi…
View article: Disfluency attenuates the reception of pseudoprofound and postmodernist bullshit
Disfluency attenuates the reception of pseudoprofound and postmodernist bullshit Open
Four studies explore the role of perceptual fluency in attenuating bullshit receptivity, or the tendency for individuals to rate otherwise meaningless statements as "profound". Across four studies, we presented participants with a sample o…
View article: The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences
The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences Open
Short Abstract: This paper provides a survey of evidence from computational cognitive psychology, perceptual psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, and social psychology, in favor of the language of thought hypothesi…
View article: The Outlier Paradox: The Role of Iterative Ensemble Coding in Discounting Outliers
The Outlier Paradox: The Role of Iterative Ensemble Coding in Discounting Outliers Open
Ensemble perception has been shown to be resistant to the influence of outlier stimuli. However, outlier rejection is inherently paradoxical—how can ensemble processes disregard outliers, when outliers are defined based on ensemble propert…
View article: The outlier paradox: The role of iterative ensemble coding in discounting outliers.
The outlier paradox: The role of iterative ensemble coding in discounting outliers. Open
Ensemble perception-the encoding of objects by their group properties-is known to be resistant to outlier noise. However, this resistance is somewhat paradoxical: how can the visual system determine which stimuli are outliers without alrea…
View article: The architecture of belief: an essay on the unbearable automaticity of believing
The architecture of belief: an essay on the unbearable automaticity of believing Open
My dissertation maintains that people cannot contemplate a proposition without believing that proposition. I present evidence and arguments that, contrary to popular opinion, we cannot withhold assent from any proposition we happen to cons…
View article: Against dispositionalism: belief in cognitive science
Against dispositionalism: belief in cognitive science Open
Dispositionalism about belief has had a recent resurgence. In this paper we critically evaluate a popular dispositionalist program pursued by Eric Schwitzgebel. Then we present an alternative: a psychofunctional, representational theory of…