People often view certain ways of classifying people (eg, by gender, race, or ethnicity) as
reflecting real distinctions found in nature. Such categories are viewed as marking …

Much of children's knowledge is derived not from their direct experiences with the
environment but rather from the input of others. However, until recently, the focus in studies …

We adults could scarcely find our way in the world, either literally or metaphorically, if no one
told us anything. Imagine planning a journey to a distant city you've never visited before …

Across two experiments, preschool‐aged children demonstrated selective learning of non‐
linguistic information from native‐accented rather than foreign‐accented speakers. In …

What does it mean to be human? Why do we feel and behave in the ways that we do? The
classic answer is that we have a special kind of intelligence. But to understand what we are …

It is widely recognized that language plays a key role in the transmission of human culture,
but relatively little is known about the mechanisms by which language simultaneously …

In a longitudinal study of attachment, children (N= 147) aged 50 and 61 months heard their
mother and a stranger make conflicting claims. In 2 tasks, the available perceptual cues …

Abstract Three-and 4-year-old children were asked to judge which of a set of 3 lines was the
longest, both independently and in the face of an inaccurate consensus among adult …

Two experiments investigated the influence of socially conveyed emotions and speech on
infants' choices among food. After watching films in which two unfamiliar actresses each …

What events trigger causal explanatory reasoning in young children? Children's
explanations could be triggered by either consistent events (suggesting that explanations …