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ArticleCognition2022

The influence of linguistic form and causal explanations on the development of social essentialism.

Josie Benitez, Rachel A Leshin, Marjorie Rhodes

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Article in Cognition, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Josie BenitezNew York University, Department of Psychology, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, United States of America. Electronic address: josiebenitez@nyu.edu.
Rachel A LeshinNew York University, Department of Psychology, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, United States of America.
Marjorie RhodesNew York University, Department of Psychology, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, United States of America.
New York University · US

Funding

“The Linguistic Transmission of Maladaptive Beliefs”R01HD087672 · NICHD · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI RHODES, MARJORIE · 2016 to 2020
$1.8M
Societal assumptions regarding typical personhood and their effects on reasoning developmentF31HD107965 · NICHD · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI LESHIN, RACHEL A · 2022 to 2023
$69k
NICHD NIH HHS F31 HD107965NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD087672
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Generic descriptions of social categories (e.g., boys play baseball; girls have long hair) lead children and adults to think of the referenced categories (i.e., boys and girls) in essentialist terms-as natural ways of dividing up the world. Yet, key questions remain unanswered about how, why, and when generic language shapes the development of essentialist beliefs. The present experiment examined the scope of these effects by testing the extent to which generics elicit essentialist beliefs because of their linguistic form or because of the causal information they convey. Generic language led children (N = 199, M

Indexed as

CommunicationLanguageAdultCausalityChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansLinguisticsMaleCausal reasoningCognitive developmentGeneric languageSocial categorizationSocial essentialism

Identifiers

PMID35985103
PMCPMC9746922
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