What children infer from social categories

被引:22
作者
Diesendruck, Gil [1 ]
Eldror, Ehud [1 ]
机构
[1] Bar Ilan Univ, Dept Psychol, IL-52900 Ramat Gan, Israel
关键词
Social categories; Induction; Essentialism; Naive psychology; Naive biology; ESSENTIALISM; BELIEFS; INDUCTION;
D O I
10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.11.001
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
Children hold the belief that social categories have essences. We investigated what kinds of properties children feel licensed to infer about a person based on social category membership. Seventy-two 4-6-year-olds were introduced to novel social categories defined as having one internal - psychological or biological - and one external - behavioral or physical - property. For half of the participants, the internal property was described as causing the external one; for the others, no causal relationship between properties was mentioned. Children were asked to choose as a novel exemplar of a category one with only the internal or only the external property. Children inferred that exemplars had a psychological property irrespective of causal status, but they inferred the presence of a biological property only when described as causal. Children did not draw systematic inferences regarding either of the two external properties. These findings indicate that children treat psychological and causal properties as central - and perhaps essential - to human kinds. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:118 / 126
页数:9
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