Andrew Perfors

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  |  Cognitive Science

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

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  |  Cognitive Science

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

Reversing the endowment effect

Campbell Pryor, Amy Perfors, Piers DL Howe

Journal article  |  2018  |  Judgment and Decision Making

An argument for how (and why) to incentivise replication

Piers DL Howe, Amy Perfors

Journal article  |  2018  |  Behavioral and Brain Sciences