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Direct linkFrazier, Brandy N.; Gelman, Susan A.; Kaciroti, Niko; Russell, Joshua W.; Lumeng, Julie C. – Developmental Science, 2012
This research investigates children's use of social categories in their food selection. Across three studies, we presented preschoolers with sets of photographs that contrasted food-eating models with different characteristics, including model gender, race (Black, White), age (child or adult), and/or expression (acceptance or rejection of the…
Descriptors: Food, Eating Habits, Decision Making, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedOpfer, John E.; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 2001
Two studies examined models that preschoolers, fifth-graders, and adults use to guide predictions of self-beneficial, goal-directed action. Found that preschoolers' predictions were consistent with an animal-based model, fifth-graders' with biology-based and complexity-based models, and adults' predictions with a biology-based model. All age…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedGutheil, Grant; Gelman, Susan A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Three studies examined the ability of 8- and 9-year-olds and young adults to use sample monotonicity and diversity information according to the similarity-coverage model of category-based induction. Found that children's difficulty with this information was independent of category level, and may be based on preferences for other strategies…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Classification, Cognitive Development
