Phonemes as Mental Categories

Mental Accounting as Self-Regulation: Representativeness to Goal-Derived Categories

When making decisions, people group gains and losses. The way they choose to form these groupings, called "mental accounting", affects their decisions. Mental accounting is a powerful and intuitively compelling phenomenon. To this point, however, little attention has been devoted to the psychological principles that underlie mental accounting. In this article we explore the psychological proces...

Restriction categories as enriched categories

Article history: Received 27 November 2012 Received in revised form 4 September 2013 Accepted 20 December 2013 Communicated by B.P.F. Jacobs

Basic mental operations which make up mental categories

One of the fundamental tasks the Scuola Operativa Italiana (S.O.I.) [Italian Operational School] has devoted itself to has been the task of analysing, in terms of mental operations, what S.O.I. calls “mental categories”, that is the meanings of the words that clearly do not indicate something physical (amongst these are, first of all, words which are very frequently used and are absolutely indi...

Dependencies As Categories

Directed Containers as Categories

Directed containers make explicit the additional structure of those containers whose set functor interpretation carries a comonad structure. The data and laws of a directed container resemble those of a monoid, while the data and laws of a directed container morphism those of a monoid morphism in the reverse direction. With some reorganization, a directed container is the same as a small catego...