scholarly journals Feature centrality: Naming versus imagining

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 526-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven A. Sloman ◽  
Woo-Kyoung Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Feature Centrality

Causal Status as a Determinant of Feature Centrality

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woo-kyoung Ahn ◽  
Nancy S. Kim ◽  
Mary E. Lassaline ◽  
Martin J. Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Causal Status ◽  
Feature Centrality

Deity Representation: A Prototype Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 258-286
Author(s):  
Ross W. May ◽  
Frank D. Fincham
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Prototype Structure ◽  
Choice Latency ◽  
Feature Centrality ◽  
Feature Frequency

This research systematically evaluates via prototype analysis how conceptualizations of Western adult's monotheistic God are structured. Over 4 studies, using U.S. student and community samples of predominantly Christians, features of God are identified, feature centrality is documented, and centrality influence on cognition is evaluated. Studies 1 and 2 produced considerable overlap in feature frequency and centrality ratings across the samples, with “God is love” being the most frequently listed central feature. In Studies 3 (choice latency) and 4 (recall and recognition memory), the centrality of features influenced cognitive processes: central features were more quickly identified as features of God than peripheral features; were correctly recognized more often; and central features were correctly recalled more often than peripheral features. Results indicated that participants meaningfully judged centrality and that centrality affected cognition. Thus, the two criteria necessary for demonstrating deity representations adhere to a prototype structure were met. Implications and future directions are discussed.

The Content of Self- and Other-Concepts: A Network Perspective

1997 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-378
Author(s):  
Nigel P. Field ◽  
Daniel Hart ◽  
Mardi J. Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Network Model ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
The Other ◽  
Predictive Utility ◽  
Sampling Methodology ◽  
Experience Sampling Methodology ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Feature Centrality ◽  
Person Concept

The predictive value of the network perspective on the content of person-concepts was investigated in two studies. A number of predictions were tested based on the positive relationship between person-concept feature centrality and accessibility derived from the network model. Consistent with a network account of person-concept feature centrality, it was expected that features spontaneously generated by subjects when asked to describe a particular person would be shown to be more accessible on independent indices of accessibility within the context of the same person relative to features that were freely generated for a different person target and nomothetic features. Study 1 attempted to demonstrate that yes-no person-referent descriptiveness judgments involving spontaneously generated features would be made more quickly relative to the other two categories of features. Utilizing an experience-sampling methodology, Study 2 attempted to show that spontaneously offered features would be applied more often to the person for which they were generated when thinking about him or her in ongoing thought. The findings in both studies were consistent with predictions. Because reaction-time and frequency measures are independent indices of accessibility, the convergent findings across the two studies provide compelling support for the predictive utility of the network model.

Self-construal and feature centrality

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 781-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huifang Mao ◽  
Xingbo Li ◽  
Kalpesh Kaushik Desai ◽  
Shailendra Pratap Jain
Keyword(s):  
Self Construal ◽  
Feature Centrality

scholarly journals Feature Centrality and Conceptual Coherence

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven A. Sloman ◽  
Bradley C. Love ◽  
Woo-Kyoung Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Coherence ◽  
Feature Centrality

scholarly journals Feature centrality and property induction

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantinos Hadjichristidis ◽  
Steven Sloman ◽  
Rosemary Stevenson ◽  
David Over
Keyword(s):  
Feature Centrality
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