Jp. Barthelemy et E. Mulet, INFORMATION-PROCESSING IN SIMILARITY JUDGMENTS, British journal of mathematical & statistical psychology, 49, 1996, pp. 225-240
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56
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Experimental","Psychologym Experimental","Mathematical, Methods, Social Sciences","Mathematics, Miscellaneous","Statistic & Probability
To account for expert information processing of similarity judgments o
n objects characterized by several attributes, a flexible model, inspi
red by works of Montgomery (1983) and Barthelemy & Mullet (1986, 1992)
is presented and illustrated on the basis of data collected from expe
rienced subjects. This model coordinates three types of rules: thresho
ld rules, conjunctive rules and disjunctive rules. It is based on the
principle that a 'bounded consensus rule' is the major rule and that a
ll others are merely employed to obtain a consensus structure quickly
Three basic principles are incorporated in the model: (i) a parsimony
principle, (ii) a reliability principle, (iii) a decidability principl
e. The model can be represented as a process (flowchart) or as a formu
la (equation).