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Understanding how objects are partitioned into useful groups to form concepts is important to many disciplines. Concepts allow us to treat different objects equivalently according to shared attributes, and hence to communicate about, draw inferences from, reason with, and explain these objects.
Similarity and Categorization provides a uniquely interdisciplinary overview of this area of inquiry. The book brings together leading researchers, reflecting key topics and important developments in the field. It will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in cognitive psychology,...

‘Soft power’ is an oft-used term and commands an instinctive understanding among journalists and casual observers, who mostly interpret it as ‘diplomatic’ or somehow ‘persuasive’. ‘Hard power’ is seen, by contrast, as something more tangible and usually military. But this is a superficial appreciation of a more subtle concept - and one key to Britain's future on the international stage. Britain’s Persuaders is a deep exploration of this phenomenon, using new research into the instruments of soft power evident in British society and most relevant to the 2020s. Some, like the...