人类认知中的心理确定性来源

Humans often exhibit more certainty than is justified. Drawing on recent work in Form Theory, a theory of conceptual structure, the present paper proposes and tests a novel hypothesis about one important source of psychological certainty. On Form Theory, concepts have a central form: a core structure within each concept that stores a subset of its information, gives that information default influence in cognition, and activates a distinctive set of strong form-generated beliefs. The present paper tests the proposal that psychological certainty is one such form-generated belief. In Experiment 1