TY - SER AU - Widmer,Eric AU - Romney,A Kimball AU - Boyd,John TI - Research report: cognitive aspects of step-terms in american kinship PY - 1999/// CY - Arlington PB - American Antropological Association KW - CONSANGUINIDAD KW - PARENTESCO N1 - En: American Anthropologist. -- Vol. 101 No. 2 (junio 1999), pp. 374-378. ISSN 00027294 N2 - In this article we extend the study of judged similarity among kinship terms from consanguineal to stepterms. Based on a sample of college students, we present a Euclidean representation of American kinship terms that shows that the distinction between consanguineal terms and step- terms is crucial. This representation matches predictions from the componential analysis paradigm and is shared by respondents of both genders with different ethnicities and first languages spoken ER -