#3517. Evidence for multiple sources of inductive potential: Occupations and their relations to social institutions

October 2026publication date
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Linguistics and Language;
Developmental and Educational Psychology;
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology;
Artificial Intelligence;
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Abstract:
Several current theories have essences as primary drivers of inductive potential. We investigated the possibility that people take occupational roles as having robust inductive potential. Participants used occupational roles to robustly generalize rights and obligations, functional behaviors, personality traits, and skills. Occupational roles supported inferences to the same extent as animal categories. We examined why members of occupational roles share properties. Participants did not attribute the inductive potential of occupational roles to essences, they attributed it to social institutions. In combination, these seven studies demonstrate that any theory of inductive potential must pluralistically allow for both essences and social institutions to form the basis of inductive potential.
Keywords:
Categories; Concepts; Inductive potential; Social cognition; Social roles

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