Wealth, power, and status are distributed unevenly across social groups. A surge of recent
research reveals that people being recognizing, representing, and reasoning about group …

Children's ethnicity‐status associations are often studied in societies where one ethnic
group possesses status across multiple dimensions, such as political influence and wealth …

In an exploration of colorist biases across native Melanesian participants, we employed a
multi-method approach across three studies to examine evaluative and perceptual …

How do children learn about the structure of the social world? We tested whether children
would extract patterns from an agent's social choices to make inferences about multiple …

A central question in social cognitive development concerns the degree to which children
prefer social ingroup members relative to social outgroup members. Forced‐choice …

Across many non-Western communities, lighter skinned individuals are favorably evaluated
over their darker intragroup counterparts (colorism). Three studies explored whether …

Societal hierarchies within and between groups are prevalent and impactful. Young
children's thinking about societal hierarchies offers a valuable lens into how the structure of …

Previous research suggests that racial prejudice emerges in the early preschool years, often
influenced by parental attitudes. However, many parents, particularly White parents, may be …

Palaeoanthropologists have yet to pinpoint how Homo evolved from Australopithecus. I
propose niche construction ending predator ambush and stalking attacks, white sclera, and …

Children are born into a social world with a dizzying array of groups. These groups are often
hierarchically structured in the society, leading to social inequalities. For example, children …