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Categories convey prescriptive information across domains and development

2018-08-01

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<p>Young children display a pervasive bias to assume that what they observe in the world reflects how things are supposed to be. The present studies examined the nature of this bias, by testing whether it reflects a particular form of reasoning about human social behaviors or a more general feature of category representations. Children ages 4-9 and adults (N = 747) evaluated instances of nonconformity among member...

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726c9d8e-944d-511a-bf64-047cb65ddfea
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10.31234/osf.io/b37av
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