Forming conceptually-rich social categories helps people to navigate the complex social
world by allowing them to reason about the likely thoughts, beliefs, actions, and interactions …

Demonstrating how race is socially constructed has been a core sociological objective, yet
many individuals continue to hold essentialist and other concepts of what races are and how …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

Social categorization is a universal mechanism for making sense of a vast social world with
roots in perceptual, conceptual, and social systems. These systems emerge strikingly early …

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 …

Social categorization is an early-developing feature of human social cognition, yet the role
that social categories play in children's understanding of and predictions about human …

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 show signs of intergroup biases from early in development, and evidence suggests
that these biases increase through middle childhood. Here we critically review and …

Research over the last fifty years has suggested that political attitudes and values around
the globe are shaped by two ideological dimensions, often referred to as economic and …

Adults evaluate others based on their speech, yet little is known of the developmental
trajectory by which accent attitudes are acquired. Here we investigate the development of …