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Validating LLMs as Coders of Cultural Constructs: a Large-Scale Test of Minimally Counterintuitiveness using Pokémon

2026-08-25

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<p>Minimally counterintuitiveness (MCI) theory predicts that concepts violating a small number of intuitive ontological expectations (1--2 violations) are transmitted more successfully than either fully intuitive concepts or maximally counterintuitive (3+ violations) ones. Testing this inverted-U prediction at scale has been limited by the cost of human content coding. We evaluate whether large language models (LL...

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Literature Corpus work: 7945a47c-931c-5308-8108-215947b4a1ab
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/x5qyz_v1

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