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We successfully replicated a study about aesthetic emotions in a different socio-cultural environment. The present results suggest that incoherence is a strong inhibitor for aesthetic chills and verify a positive correlation between pleasure and meaning. These results allow for a scientific study of aesthetic emotions as it is now possible for the experimenter to have two groups of subjects, both...
We describe a Bayesian network implementation of a theory of concepts that is motivated by observations from the philosophical debate between Lexical Concept Empiricism and Lexical Concept Nativism. According to our theory, Baptizing Meanings for Concepts (BMC), concepts are acquired by hypothesizing latent kinds/categories to explain observed co-occurrences of sets of properties in a group of objects...
This chapter examines argumentation as a psychosocial practice, embedded in institutional, historical, and cultural contexts. Even though they are in reality interwoven, several dimensions (cognitive, interactive, and cultural) will be distinguished. At the cognitive and individual level, the questions comprise the following ones: what are the cognitive prerequisites for engaging into an argumentative...
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