Social groups are a pervasive feature of human life. One factor that is often understudied in
the literature on person perception and social categorization is language. Yet, someone's …

Children often hold “essentialist” intuitions about social categories, viewing them as
reflecting people's intrinsic essences or biological natures. This intuition promotes prejudice …

Many children around the world grow up bilingual, learning and using two or more
languages in everyday life. Currently, however, children's language backgrounds are not …

Over half a century ago, psychologists hypothesized that social essentialism, an intuitive
theory comprising the beliefs that social categories reflect naturally occurring distinctions …

The questionnaire has a long tradition of being employed as an instrument of attitude
elicitation, and early on in the development of language attitudes as a field of study, this …

Striking weight biases emerge early in development, yet cognitive-developmental research
has largely ignored weight as a social characteristic of interest. How do children conceive of …

Although they are far from biological or social maturity, infants and children show surprising
early-emerging capacities in social group cognition. This chapter reviews research on when …

Language awareness (LA)—an understanding of the communicative functions and
conventions of language—could benefit monolingual children as they navigate their …

Given current global migration patterns, understanding of children's intuitions about
nationality and national categories is an important and emerging focus for developmental …

How people conceptualize learning is related to real-world educational consequences
across many domains of education. Despite its centrality to the educational system, we know …