Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …