A proximity effect in adults' contamination intuitions
Magical beliefs about contagion via contact (Rozin, Nemeroff, Wane, and Sherrod, 1989) may emerge when people overgeneralize real-world mechanisms of contamination beyond their appropriate boundaries (Lindeman and Aarnio, 2007). Do people similarly overextend knowledge of airborne contamination mech...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2011-04-01
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| Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sjdm.org/11/11120/jdm11120.pdf |