Andrew Perfors

Culture and global societal threats: COVID-19 as a pathogen threat to humanity

Yoshihisa Kashima, Simon Dennis, Andrew Perfors, Simon M Laham

Journal article  |  2021  |  GROUP PROCESSES & INTERGROUP RELATIONS

The COVID-19 global pandemic has brought into sharp focus the urgency of tackling the question of how globalized humanity responds..

Visual and Affective Multimodal Models of Word Meaning in Language and Mind

Simon De Deyne, Danielle J Navarro, Guillem Collell, Andrew Perfors

Journal article  |  2021  |  COGNITIVE SCIENCE

One of the main limitations of natural language-based approaches to meaning is that they do not incorporate multimodal representat..

Cross-situational learning in a Zipfian environment.

Andrew T Hendrickson, Amy Perfors

Journal article  |  2019  |  Cognition

Both adults and children have shown impressive cross-situational word learning in which they leverage the statistics of word usage..

Conformity to the descriptive norms of people with opposing political or social beliefs

Campbell Pryor, Amy Perfors, Piers DL Howe

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLOS ONE

The descriptive norm effect refers to findings that individuals will tend to prefer behaving certain ways when they know that othe..

Sample size, number of categories and sampling assumptions: Exploring some differences between categorization and generalization

Andrew T Hendrickson, Amy Perfors, Danielle J Navarro, Keith Ransom

Journal article  |  2019  |  COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Categorization and generalization are fundamentally related inference problems. Yet leading computational models of categorization..

The "Small World of Words" English word association norms for over 12,000 cue words

Simon De Deyne, Danielle J Navarro, Amy Perfors, Marc Brysbaert, Gert Storms

Journal article  |  2019  |  BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS

Word associations have been used widely in psychology, but the validity of their application strongly depends on the number of cue..

Do Additional Features Help or Hurt Category Learning? The Curse of Dimensionality in Human Learners.

Wai Keen Vong, Andrew T Hendrickson, Danielle J Navarro, Amy Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Cogn Sci

The curse of dimensionality, which has been widely studied in statistics and machine learning, occurs when additional features cau..

Even arbitrary norms influence moral decision-making

Campbell Pryor, Amy Perfors, Piers DL Howe

Journal article  |  2019  |  NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

It is well known that individuals tend to copy behaviours that are common among other people-a phenomenon known as the descriptive..

The Psychology of Cultural Dynamics: What Is It, What Do We Know, and What Is Yet to Be Known?

Yoshihisa Kashima, Paul G Bain, Amy Perfors

Book  |  2019  |  Annual Review of Psychology

The psychology of cultural dynamics is the psychological investigation of the formation, maintenance, and transformation of cultur..

When Extremists Win: Cultural Transmission Via Iterated Learning When Populations Are Heterogeneous.

Danielle J Navarro, Amy Perfors, Arthur Kary, Scott D Brown, Chris Donkin

Journal article  |  2018  |  Cogn Sci

How does the process of information transmission affect the cultural or linguistic products that emerge? This question is often st..