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A Crucial Source of Psychological Certainty in Human Cognition: The Certainty Signature of Central Form

2026-08-02

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<p>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 cogniti...

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Literature Corpus work: 073eedb2-ebd8-59b5-b933-906c888a34e0
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/5x6hd_v2

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