| “American = English Speaker” Before “American = White”: The Development of Children's Reasoning About Nationality |
2017 |
1232 |
Adults implicitly judge people from certain social backgrounds as more “American” than others. This study tests the development of children's reasoning about nationality and social categories. Children across cultures (White and Korean American child... |
| Bilingual children’s social preferences hinge on accent |
2017 |
1492 |
Past research finds that monolingual and bilingual children prefer native speakers to individuals who speak in unfamiliar foreign languages or accents. Do children in bilingual contexts socially distinguish among familiar languages and accents and, i... |
| Children eat more food when they prepare it themselves |
2019 |
1412 |
Encouraging children to participate in food preparation is recommended by pediatric guidelines and has been included in public health interventions. However, little is known about whether the act of preparing a food specifically increases children's ... |
| Children judge others based on their food choices |
2019 |
1269 |
Individuals and cultures share some commonalities in food preferences, yet cuisines also differ widely across social groups. Eating is a highly social phenomenon; however, little is known about the judgments children make about other people’s food ch... |
| Children's sociolinguistic evaluations of nice foreigners and mean Americans |
2013 |
1768 |
Three experiments investigated 5- to 6-year-old monolingual English-speaking American children's sociolinguistic evaluations of others based on their accent (native, foreign) and social actions (nice, mean, neutral). In Experiment 1, children express... |
| Evaluations versus expectations: Children’s divergent beliefs about resource distribution |
2014 |
1401 |
Past research reveals a tension between children's preferences for egalitarianism and ingroup favoritism when distributing resources to others. Here we investigate how children's evaluations and expectations of others' behaviors compare. Four- to 10-... |
| Eww she sneezed! Contamination context affects children's food preferences and consumption |
2015 |
1167 |
Does contextual information about disgust influence children's food consumption and subjective experience of taste? Three- to eight-year-old children (N = 60) were presented with two identical foods, yet children were led to believe that one food had... |
| How information about what is "healthy" versus "unhealthy" impacts children's consumption of otherwise identical foods |
2019 |
1929 |
Can brief messages about health influence children’s consumption of identical foods? Across a series of studies, we manipulated children’s consumption of identical foods (fruit sauces) by pairing those foods with brief messages about each food’s heal... |
| Implicit attitudes, eating behavior, and the development of obesity |
2017 |
1200 |
Nettle et al. describe increasing food intake (relative to energy expenditure) in response to food insecurity as a key contributor to obesity. I argue that a variety of implicit psychological mechanisms underlie this process to contribute to weight g... |
| An investigation of maternal food intake and maternal food talk as predictors of child food intake |
2018 |
1060 |
Though parental modeling is thought to play a critical role in promoting children's healthy eating, little research has examined maternal food intake and maternal food talk as independent predictors of children's food intake. The present study examin... |
| Mere social knowledge impacts children’s consumption and categorization of foods |
2018 |
1119 |
How does social information affect the perception of taste early in life? Does mere knowledge of other people's food preferences impact children's own experience when eating? In Experiment 1, 5- and 6-year-old children consumed more of a food describ... |
| Northern = smart and Southern = nice: The development of accent attitudes in the U.S. |
2013 |
4294 |
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 American children's attitudes about Northern- and Southern-accented Ameri... |
| Selective eating behaviors in children: An observational validation of parental report measures |
2018 |
236 |
Selective eating in children is commonly measured by parental report questionnaires, yet it is unknown if parents accurately estimate their child's selective eating behavior. The objectives of this study were to test the validity and stability of two... |
| Understanding infants' and children's social learning about foods: Previous research and new prospects |
2013 |
1857 |
Developmental psychologists have devoted significant attention to investigating how children learn from others' actions, emotions, and testimony. Yet most of this research has examined children's socially guided learning about artifacts. The present ... |