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Psychological similarity—the subjective distance between objects in the world or memory—is a highly influential concept in many areas of cognitive psychology, such as learning, memory, categorization, judgment, and preferential choice. The contributions within this symposium will evaluate the fundamental role that similarity plays in human judgment and decision making. We bring together experts from distinct subdisciplines of psychology, who examine the influence of similarity on categorization, consumer choice, risky choice, social norms, and in memory-based choices. Specifically, the contributions elaborate on three key questions repeatedly pursued within cognitive psychology: 1) how does similarity activate previous experiences and renders them available within a given choice context? 2) how does similarity interact with feature or knowledge abstraction processes? 3) how is similarity represented psychologically? To reach this goal, the contributions within this symposium focus on reinstating similarity-based processes within formal cognitive models and test their predictions experimentally.



CogSci 2021

Similarity-based Influences in Judgment and Decision Making

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**Dear Colleagues,**

Welcome to the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society! 

This year’s conference brings together the latest research from all Cognitive Science and also highlights this year’s theme **Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds.** 

The program features four plenary speakers: Friederike Range (University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna), Onur Güntürkün (Ruhr University Bochum), Julia Fischer (University of Göttingen), and Erich Jarvis (The Rockefeller University). The keynotes and invited symposia showcase the broad spectrum of ideas that encompass the conference theme of comparative cognition. 

Further, the program includes the Rumelhart Prize keynote presentation by Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago), and symposia to celebrate the winner of the Elman Prize: Wei Ji Ma (New York University), the Heineken Award winner Robert Zatorre (McGill University), and the Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prizes session.

The program committee for CogSci 2021 received 1,025 submissions, including 710 full papers, 275 member abstracts, 8 publication-based talks, as well as 15 proposals for symposia, and 17 for workshops and tutorials. After a rigorous review process, the committee selected 152 papers for oral presentation and inclusion in the conference proceedings (14.8%), 332 papers for poster presentation and inclusion in the proceedings (32.4%), and 175 papers for poster presentation with inclusion of abstracts in the proceedings (17.1%) We also selected 275 submitted member abstracts. In addition, we accepted 6 publication-based talks, 12 symposia, and 9 workshops and tutorials to make for an exciting and inclusive program.

We hope that you enjoy the conference this year!<br><br>

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