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Cognitive Science and the Myth of the Normal Human

2024-05-09

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<p>Within cognitive science, research on human cognition relies on the idea of a normative human; that we can study and generalize from normal humans to understand human cognition. This assumption is the only way that using convenience samples to describe cognitive universals makes sense. Cognitive Science is not alone in falling for the idea of a normative person; other social sciences and medical research have s...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/wap29

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