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Young Children's Automatic Encoding of Social Categories
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Weisman, Kara; Johnson, Marissa V.; Shutts, Kristin – Developmental Science, 2015
The present research investigated young children's automatic encoding of two social categories that are highly relevant to adults: gender and race. Three- to 6-year-old participants learned facts about unfamiliar target children who varied in either gender or race and were asked to remember which facts went with which targets. When participants…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Classification, Social Influences, Gender Differences