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Direct linkDeJesus, Jasmine M.; Liberman, Zoe; Kinzler, Katherine D. – ZERO TO THREE, 2019
Babies are miraculous linguistic creatures. From an early age, they seamlessly master the language or languages in their early environment. Babies' early language-learning abilities turn out to not just be about language--they are also social in nature, orienting children to cultural in-group members. Infants and young children demonstrate…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Language Usage, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedLiberman, Zoe; Woodward, Amanda L.; Kinzler, Katherine D. – Cognitive Science, 2017
Language provides rich social information about its speakers. For instance, adults and children make inferences about a speaker's social identity, geographic origins, and group membership based on her language and accent. Although infants prefer speakers of familiar languages (Kinzler, Dupoux, & Spelke, 2007), little is known about the…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Inferences, Language
Kinzler, Katherine D.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Cognition, 2011
Do infants develop meaningful social preferences among novel individuals based on their social group membership? If so, do these social preferences depend on familiarity on any dimension, or on a more specific focus on particular kinds of categorical information? The present experiments use methods that have previously demonstrated infants' social…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Infants, Toys, Race
Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Kinzler, Katherine D.; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Past research provides evidence that children use at least 2 potentially competing strategies when choosing informants: they attend to informants' past accuracy and to their social identity (e.g., their status as native- vs. foreign-accented speakers). We explore how children reconcile these 2 strategies when they are put in conflict and whether…
Descriptors: Young Children, English, Native Speakers, Dialects
Shutts, Kristin; Kinzler, Katherine D.; Katz, Rachel C.; Tredoux, Colin; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Developmental Science, 2011
Minority-race children in North America and Europe often show less own-race favoritism than children of the majority (White) race, but the reasons for this asymmetry are unresolved. The present research tested South African children in order to probe the influences of group size, familiarity, and social status on children's race-based social…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Race, Social Status
Shutts, Kristin; Kinzler, Katherine D.; McKee, Caitlin B.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2009
Two experiments investigated the influence of socially conveyed emotions and speech on infants' choices among food. After watching films in which two unfamiliar actresses each spoke while eating a different kind of food, 12-month-old infants were allowed to choose between the two foods. In Experiment 1, infants selected a food endorsed by a…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Infants, Affective Behavior, Social Influences
