| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| What’s In A Name?: Preschoolers Treat A Bug As A Moral Agent When It Has A Proper Name |
2017 |
743 |
Children encounter anthropomorphized objects daily: in advertisements, media, and books. Past research suggests that features like eyes or displaying intentional, goal-directed behaviors, increases how humanly non-human agents are perceived. When adu... |
| Against The Odds: Preschoolers, Like Adults, Predict Outcomes That Are Desirable But Unlikely |
2016 |
729 |
Adults’ expectations are often biased by their desires, a phenomenon known as the desirability bias. The current study was the first to investigate the desirability bias in 4- and 5-year-old children and adults. Participants predicted whether a criti... |
| PLAYING WITH TRANSGRESSORS: PRESCHOOLERS CONSIDER REPUTATION AND SAFETY WHEN CHOOSING PLAYMATES |
2015 |
824 |
Preschoolers think physically mean peers are unlikely to be helpful and deserve to bepunished and excluded from play (Kondrad & Jaswal, 2013). Even after transgressors arepunished, children are unwilling to play with them. There is an adaptive explan... |
| Preschoolers Think Strangers Will Share The Same Knowledge As Other Group Members, But Will Not Behave Like Them |
2018 |
518 |
Children learn much of what they know from others’ testimony. But, they are selective: children as young as 3 consider cues to credibility like past accuracy, benevolence, and group membership to decide whom to trust. Research on credulity has center... |
| Informants’ Race And Accent Influence Preschoolers’ Uptake Of Irregular Nouns And Verbs |
2018 |
474 |
When young children are learning the structure of the English language, they learn rules like “add –s if there is more than one of something.” However, as a more experienced speaker would quickly point out, not all words abide by these simple princip... |