TY - GEN
T1 - Consistent but not diagnostic
T2 - 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Changing Minds, CogSci 2018
AU - Vélez, Natalia
AU - Wu, Yuerui
AU - Gweon, Hyowon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Social groups highlight latent structure in the social world and support inductive inferences about individuals. In the present work, we examined children and adults' intuitions about shared preferences within social groups. In Exp.1, 3- to 5-year-old children treated preferences as a consistent property of social groups; that is, children expected members of a social group to like the same toys that other members have liked. However, they did not treat preferences as diagnostic of social groups; they did not expect individuals to belong to a group that shares their preferences. By contrast, in Exp.2, adults readily treated preferences as both a consistent and diagnostic property of social groups. These results suggest that children's inferences about social groups are asymmetric: Children readily infer preferences based on group membership, but not group membership based on preferences.
AB - Social groups highlight latent structure in the social world and support inductive inferences about individuals. In the present work, we examined children and adults' intuitions about shared preferences within social groups. In Exp.1, 3- to 5-year-old children treated preferences as a consistent property of social groups; that is, children expected members of a social group to like the same toys that other members have liked. However, they did not treat preferences as diagnostic of social groups; they did not expect individuals to belong to a group that shares their preferences. By contrast, in Exp.2, adults readily treated preferences as both a consistent and diagnostic property of social groups. These results suggest that children's inferences about social groups are asymmetric: Children readily infer preferences based on group membership, but not group membership based on preferences.
KW - social categories
KW - social cognitive development
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85139508118
T3 - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018
SP - 2621
EP - 2626
BT - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
Y2 - 25 July 2018 through 28 July 2018
ER -