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They’re All Like That! The Universality Signature of Central Form

2025-05-05

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<p>This paper investigates how humans store information within the thousands of concepts that structure thought, belief, and action. Building on recent work suggesting that each concept has a central form—a core representational structure that triggers strong beliefs when properties are encoded into it—this paper introduces and tests a new form-triggered belief: a default universality belief. Across two experiment...

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Literature Corpus work: e3e82655-94f1-5d63-ab3d-1007e6d2dfa7
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/gjxdp_v1

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