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Master, Allison; Markman, Ellen M.; Dweck, Carol S. – Child Development, 2012
Can young children, forming expectations about the social world, capture differences among people without falling into the pitfalls of categorization? Categorization often leads to exaggerating differences between groups and minimizing differences within groups, resulting in stereotyping. Six studies with 4-year-old children (N = 214)…
Descriptors: Classification, Inferences, Social Attitudes, Child Development
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Lerner, Richard M.; Korn, Sam J. – Child Development, 1972
Results indicated that at all age levels Ss held a predominantly favorable view of the mesomorph, a markedly unfavorable view of the endomorph, and a somewhat less negative but still unfavorable view of the ectomorph. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Groups, Attitude Measures, Developmental Psychology, Identification (Psychology)