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A developmental examination of the conceptual structure of animal, artifact, and human social categories across two cultural contexts
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Previous research indicates that the ontological status that adults attribute to categories varies systematically by domain. For example, adults view distinctions between different animal species as natural and objective, but view distinctions between different kinds of furniture as more conventionalized and subjective. The present work (N = 435; ages 5-18) examined the effects of domain, age, and cultural context on beliefs about the naturalness vs. conventionality of categories. Results demonstrate that young children, like adults, view animal categories as natural kinds, but artifact categories as more conventionalized. For human social categories (gender and race), beliefs about naturalness and conventionality were predicted by interactions between cultural context and age. Implications for the origins of social categories and theories of conceptual development will be discussed.
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- Authors
- Rhodes, M., & Gelman, S. A.
- Venue
- Cognitive Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-11
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 244-274
- ISSN
- 0010-0285 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2113654771
- Cited by
- 323
- References
- 99
- FWCI
- 18.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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