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category uncertainty hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Cognitive psychology

the proposal that faces lying at the boundary between categories, such as human and nonhuman, are disliked because they are hard to categorize.

In cognitive psychology, category uncertainty hypothesis refers to the proposal that faces lying at the boundary between categories, such as human and nonhuman, are disliked because they are hard to categorize. This meaning comes from Yamada (2012) in Japanese Psychological Research.[1]

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Yamada, Y., Kawabe, T., & Ihaya, K. (2012). Categorization difficulty is associated with negative evaluation in the “uncanny valley” phenomenon. Japanese Psychological Research, 55(1), 20-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5884.2012.00538.x

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