Humans can learn to trust through direct social experiences. In our everyday lives, however, we constantly meet new people where judgments of trustworthiness are blind to reputation. In these cases, ...

The present research investigated whether evaluatively conditioned attitudes toward members of a social category (CSs) generalize to other stimuli belonging to the same category as the CSs ...

In novel situations, people need to repurpose past knowledge to guide behavior (generalization). How they do this remains a mystery in cognitive science. Moreover, building machines that can achieve ...

The delicate balance between discrimination and generalization of responses is crucial for survival in our ever-changing environment. In particular, it is important to understand how stimulus ...

The ability to generalize previously learned information to novel situations is fundamental for adaptive behavior. However, too wide or too narrow generalization is linked to neuropsychiatric ...

It’s a question that’s been around for a very long time: which is better to focus on, specialization or generalization? Many people have to ask themselves this as they develop skills for a future ...

Stay safe. This is Kei Shinomaru. The "mechanism of failure," which can be called the core of failureology, is difficult to express well with just the right balance. If you generalize too much, it ...