NOT GUPPIES, NOR GOLDFISH, BUT TUMBLE DRYERS, NORIEGA, JACKSON,JESSE,PANTIES, CAR CRASHES, BIRD BOOKS, AND WONDER,STEVIE

Authors
STORMS G DEBOECK P VANMECHELEN I RUTS W
Citation
G. Storms et al., NOT GUPPIES, NOR GOLDFISH, BUT TUMBLE DRYERS, NORIEGA, JACKSON,JESSE,PANTIES, CAR CRASHES, BIRD BOOKS, AND WONDER,STEVIE, Memory & cognition, 26(1), 1998, pp. 143-145
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Experimental
Journal title
Memory & cognition → ACNP
ISSN journal
0090502X
Volume
26
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
143 - 145
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-502X(1998)26:1<143:NGNGBT>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
This paper focuses on the guppy effect (Osherson & Smith, 1981), that is, on the existence of examples of conjunctive concepts that are more typical of the conjunction than of both constituents. The most freque ntly given examples of this effect, guppy and goldfish, are shown not to be more typical of the conjunction pet fish than of fish in two bet ween-subjects and one within-subjects experiment. The frequency of the effect in a large empirical study is investigated, and better example s of the effect are suggested.