Kim, Laura R.; Kim, Nancy S. - In: Judgment and Decision Making 6 (2011) 3, pp. 222-229
overgeneralize real-world mechanisms of contamination beyond their appropriate boundaries (Lindeman & Aarnio, 2007). Do people … similarly overextend knowledge of airborne contamination mechanisms? Previous work has shown that very young children believe … merely being close to a contamination source can contaminate an item (Springer & Belk 1994); we asked whether this same hyper …