Of all the things we do and say, most will never be repeated or reproduced. Once in a while, however, an idea or a practice generates a chain of transmission that covers more distance …
M Rhodes, SJ Leslie… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Social essentialism entails the belief that certain social categories (eg, gender, race) mark fundamentally distinct kinds of people. Essentialist beliefs have pernicious consequences …
In The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik, one of the world's leading child psychologists, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective and …
The central focus of this text is language development as a field of basic research, but applied issues are also considered. Chapter 1 provides an overview and history of the field …
M Rhodes, K Moty - Advances in child development and behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
Social essentialism consists of the commonly held belief that certain ways of categorizing people (eg, gender and race) reflect meaningful, fundamental distinctions found in nature …
SA Gelman, SO Roberts - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
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 …
Generic statements (eg,“Birds lay eggs”) express generalizations about categories. In this paper, we hypothesized that there is a paradoxical asymmetry at the core of generic …
Questioning is a core component of formal pedagogy. Parents commonly question children, but do they use questions to teach? This article defines “pedagogical questions” as …
Generics are statements such as “tigers are striped”,“a duck lays eggs”,“the dodo is extinct”, and “ticks carry Lyme disease”. Generics express generalizations, but unlike quantified …