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Howard, Lauren H.; Henderson, Annette M. E.; Carrazza, Cristina; Woodward, Amanda L. – Child Development, 2015
Although children can use social categories to intelligently select informants, children's preference for in-group informants has not been consistently demonstrated across age and context. This research clarifies the extent to which children use social categories to guide learning by presenting participants with a live or video-recorded…
Descriptors: Infants, Young Children, Imitation, Group Membership
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Kalish, Charles W.; Lawson, Christopher A. – Child Development, 2008
Three experiments explored the significance of deontic properties (involving rights and obligations) in representations of social categories. Preschool-aged children (M = 4.8), young school-aged children (M = 8.2), and adults judged the centrality of behavioral, psychological, and deontic properties for both familiar (Experiments 1 and 2, Ns = 50…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Children, Adults, Social Cognition