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Chapter 6 - Cliffhangers and Utilitarian Infants

On How Classification and Science Communication Create Worlds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2022

Paul van Geert  and
Naomi de Ruiter
Paul van Geert
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Naomi de Ruiter
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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Summary

Science communication is an important practice in psychological research. With this chapter, we examine this practice in mainstream psychological research. We look at the ways that our words, definitions, and descriptions (of experimental studies) create a world of categories, called ‘natural kinds’. We describe how these natural kinds are constructed by our communication practices and subsequently serve as targets for social action, which then further construct the meaning of the natural kinds.

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classificationnatural kindsscience communicationextensional definitionintentional definitioninfancygenericityprobability
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Toward a Process Approach in Psychology
Stepping into Heraclitus' River
 , pp. 115 - 136
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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