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Lane, Jonathan D.; Ronfard, Samuel – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
For decades, developmental psychologists and educators have emphasized that learning about counterintuitive phenomena may be a critical driving force for cognitive development. Thus far, little is known about the specific content that children seek to enrich their knowledge. Using a novel book-choice paradigm, we directly examine children's…
Descriptors: Young Children, Books, Cognitive Development, Age Differences
Sierra Eisen; Jessica Taggart; Angeline S. Lillard – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
Children's storybooks often contain fantasy elements, from dragons and wizards to anthropomorphic animals that wear clothes, talk, and behave like humans. These elements can impact children's learning from storybooks both positively and negatively, perhaps due in part to their ability to capture children's interest and attention. Prior research…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Young Children, Preferences, Animals
Pronovost, Megan A.; Scott, Rose M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
Adults use social-group membership to make inductive inferences about the properties of novel individuals, and this tendency is well established by the preschool years. Recent evidence suggests that infants attend to features associated with social groups and use social-group membership to interpret an agents' actions. The current study sought to…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Inferences, Logical Thinking, Infants
Sierksma, Jellie; Brey, Elizabeth; Shutts, Kristin – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Young children's racial stereotyping is poorly understood even though stereotyping can influence individuals' attitudes and behavior toward others. Here we present two preregistered studies (Total N = 257) examining White American children's (4-8 years) application of six stereotypes (about being American, smart, wealthy, sporty, honest, and nice)…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Ethnic Stereotypes, Young Children, Whites
Kopp, Leia; Hamwi, Lojain; Atance, Cristina M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
Our ability to shift from current to alternative (e.g., past and future) perspectives (i.e., "self-projection") plays a fundamental role in accurate decision-making. We investigated 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds' ability to shift perspective to reason about their future and past preferences. In Experiment 1 (N = 96), children were presented…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preferences, Age Differences, Logical Thinking
Hilton, Brooke C.; O'Neill, Amy C.; Kuhlmeier, Valerie A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
Engaging in prosocial behavior is costly. By selectively directing prosocial behavior toward individuals with a high probability of reciprocating, we are able to offset these potential costs and maintain a sustainable prosocial system. Often, we determine whether an individual will make a good prosocial partner through the observation of their…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Prosocial Behavior, Selection, Bias
Norris, Megan N.; McDermott, Catherine H.; Noles, Nicholaus S. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
Social categories are often defined by the boundaries that they form between individuals. However, many social structures describe "complementary" relationships between individuals, defining both the power that we hold over others and our obligations to them and vice versa. In two studies conducted in the U.S., we investigated a sample…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Middle Class, Decision Making, Whites
Siddiqui, Hasan; Rutherford, M. D. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Essentialism is the intuition that category membership relies on an invisible essence. Essentialist thinking about social categories is most evident in young children, while comparable methods do not reveal essentialist thinking about social groups in adult participants. However, previous work has found that essentialist thinking about gender was…
Descriptors: Intuition, Self Concept, Social Differences, Group Membership