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Ghazaleh Shahbazi; Hossein Samani; Tara M. Mandalaywala; Khatereh Borhani; Telli Davoodi – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Generic descriptions (e.g., 'girls are emotional') are argued to play a major role in the development of essentialist reasoning about social categories. Although generics are prevalent across languages, studies exploring if and how generic language leads to essentialism have almost exclusively been conducted in English-speaking communities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Adults, Indo European Languages