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Categorization

Everything on this site about categorization — each one naming the study behind it.

You stop being curious the moment you name something.
Labeling an object shifts cognitive focus toward category prototypes at the expense of specific feature recall.…
Your brain prefers to categorize people by race to process information faster.
People are generally more accurate at recognizing faces of their own race, a phenomenon known as the cross-race effect…
You categorize objects based on how they 'should' work.
The 'typicality effect' shows that people process category members differently based on how well they fit a prototype.…