http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/the-psychology-of-genre.html?mabReward=CTM&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=2
Favorite quotes from the article: "This “categorical perception,” as it’s called, is not an innocent process: What we think we’re looking at can alter what we actually see. More broadly, when we put things into a category, research has found, they actually become more alike in our minds." “Similarity serves as a basis for the classification of objects,” wrote the noted psychologist Amos Tversky, “but it is also influenced by the adopted classification.” The flip side holds: Things we might have viewed as more similar become, when placed into two distinct categories, more different." "Categorization affects not just how we perceive things, but how we feel about them. When we like something, we seem to want to break it down into further categories, away from the so-called basic level" "When we struggle to categorize something, we like it less."
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