The research reported in this article was conducted when the authors were both at the University of California, Los Angeles. The study was supported in part by a Fulbright Scholarship granted to the first author and funding from the US National Science Foundation (BNS# 8908681) awarded to the second author. E-mail may be addressed to karasawa@dpc.aichi-gakuin.ac.jp.
Category size and judgments of variability: The effects of seeing the trees in the forest†
Article first published online: 26 AUG 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.1996.tb00026.x
1996 Japanese Psychological Association
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KARASAWA, M. and BREWER, M. B. (1996), Category size and judgments of variability: The effects of seeing the trees in the forest. Japanese Psychological Research, 38: 213–223. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.1996.tb00026.x
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Publication History
- Issue published online: 26 AUG 2009
- Article first published online: 26 AUG 2009
- Received Oct. 17, 1994; accepted May 6, 1995
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