Trial reportPloS one2014
Social category formation is induced by cues of sharing knowledge in young children.
Trial report in PloS one, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Coding and Validation for Breadth and Desirability of 1,214 English Adjectives.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Selective Action Prediction in Infancy Depending on Linguistic Cues: An EEG and Eyetracker Study.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- "The Red Spots Are Now Lava, We Shouldn't Step on Them"-The Joint Creation of Novel Arbitrary Social Contexts in Pretend Play.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2023Article
- Social categorization based on permanent versus transient visual traits in neurotypical children and children with autism spectrum disorder.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Two-Year-Old Children Expect Native, but Not Foreign Speakers to Use the Same Tool for the Same Purpose.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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- Young Children Selectively Imitate Models Conforming to Social Norms.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Similarity between an unfamiliar human and the owner affects dogs' preference for human partner when responding to an unsolvable problem.Learning & behavior · 2018Article
- Infants' preferences for native speakers are associated with an expectation of information.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- 3-Year-Old Children Selectively Generalize Object Functions Following a Demonstration from a Linguistic In-group Member: Evidence from the Phenomenon of Scale Error.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- The Relative Importance of Language in Guiding Social Preferences Through Development.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Review
- Infants' Selectively Pay Attention to the Information They Receive from a Native Speaker of Their Language.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Previous research has shown that human infants and young children are sensitive to the boundaries of certain social groups, which supports the idea that the capacity to represent social categories constitutes a fundamental characteristic of the human cognitive system. However, the function this capacity serves is still debated. We propose that during social categorization the human mind aims at mapping out social groups defined by a certain set of shared knowledge. An eye-tracking paradigm was designed to test whether two-year-old children differentially associate conventional versus non-conventional tool use with language-use, reflecting an organization of information that is induced by cues of shared knowledge. Children first watched videos depicting a male model perform goal-directed actions either in a conventional or in a non-conventional way. In the test phase children were presented with photographs taken of the model and of a similarly aged unfamiliar person while listening to a foreign (Experiment 1) or a native language (Experiment 2) text. Upon hearing the foreign utterance children looked at the model first if he had been seen to act in an unconventional way during familiarization. In contrast, children looked at the other person if the model had performed conventional tool use actions. No such differences were found in case of the native language. The results suggest that children take the conventionality of behavior into account in forming representations about a person, and they generalize to other qualities of the person based on this information.
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