Behavioral evidence for differences in social and non-social category learning

When meeting someone for the very first time one spontaneously categorizes the seen person on the basis of his/her appearance. Categorization is based on the association between some physical features and category labels that can be social (character trait…) or non-social (tall, thin). Surprisingly...

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Main Authors: Lucile eGamond, Catherine eTallon-Baudry, Nicolas eGuyon, Jean-didier eLemaréchal, Laurent eHugueville, Nathalie eGeorge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00291/full