Norms and the Perception of Events

Abstract

Much of the first year of the project was spent in developing experimental techniques for the study of the implications of norm theory. The particular focus of the research was the idea of attribute mutability. Several studies were carried out using the dependent variable of self-rated surprise to distinguish surprise governed by absolute novelty and surprise as a reaction to low conditional probability. A major series of experiments examines the roles of attribute mutability and the relations between attributes in the perceived normality of visual objects, agents, and events. Another line of research looks at the role of attention in determining the topic and referent in comparison. New projects examine the felicity conditions for counterfactual language and the effects of extreme category members on category representation. Keywords: Perception (Psychology) categorization, Comparison processes, Normality.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 28, 1989
Accession Number
ADA212121

Entities

People

  • Daniel Kahneman

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Coding
  • Cognition
  • Computer Programming
  • Frequency
  • Identification
  • Information Processing
  • Judgment
  • Language
  • New York
  • Notation
  • Personality
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Security
  • Social Psychology
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  • Psychology

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  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
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