Strong Flying Women and Weak Invisible Men: How People Make Superhuman Concepts Coherent

Abstract

This paper reports on a study designed to investigate how people understand superhuman concepts that are of interest to cognitive scientists of religion. Similar to findings of previous studies of surprising social conceptual combinations, we found that people generated numerous emergent properties for such concepts. These results support the knowledge-based models of conceptual combination.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 11, 2014
Accession Number
AD1003998

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People

  • M. A. Upal

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Comprehension
  • Dictionaries
  • Learning
  • Materials
  • Philosophy
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Religion
  • Scientists
  • Societies
  • Sociology

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  • Psychology

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