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"You" speaks to me: Effects of generic-you in creating resonance between people and ideas

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

A Cross-Cultural Developmental Analysis of Children's and Adults' Understanding of Illness in South Asia (India) and the United States

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A computational foundation for cognitive development: comment on Griffths et al. and McLelland et al.

scientific article published on 28 June 2010

A developmental analysis of generic nouns in Southern Peruvian Quechua.

scientific article

A developmental examination of the conceptual structure of animal, artifact, and human social categories across two cultural contexts

scientific article published on 13 June 2009

A self-agency bias in preschoolers' causal inferences

scientific article published on March 2009

Acquisition of generic noun phrases in Chinese: learning about lions without an '-s'

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

An investigation of maternal food intake and maternal food talk as predictors of child food intake

scientific article published on 11 May 2018

Artifacts and essentialism

scientific article published on September 2013

Beliefs about the origins of human psychological traits

scientific article published on September 2000

Bewitchment, biology, or both: the co-existence of natural and supernatural explanatory frameworks across development

scientific article published in June 2008

Bilingual effects on lexical selection: A neurodevelopmental perspective

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Bilingual parents' modeling of pragmatic language use in multiparty interactions

scientific article

Boys will be boys; cows will be cows: children's essentialist reasoning about gender categories and animal species

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Can White children grow up to be Black? Children's reasoning about the stability of emotion and race

scientific article published on 05 May 2016

Can you say it another way? Cognitive factors in bilingual children's pragmatic language skills

scientific article

Categories and induction in young children

scientific article published in August 1986

Categories influence predictions about individual consistency

scientific article published on September 2008

Causal status effect in children's categorization

scientific article published on August 2000

Child categorization

scientific article published on 19 July 2010

Children Seek Historical Traces of Owned Objects.

scientific article published on 3 November 2015

Children eat more food when they prepare it themselves

scientific article published on 16 November 2018

Children's Developing Intuitions About the Truth Conditions and Implications of Novel Generics Versus Quantified Statements

scientific article

Children's Recall of Generic and Specific Labels Regarding Animals and People

scientific article

Children's Use of Generics in Inductive Inferences

Children's and adults' intuitions about who can own things

scientific article published on January 2012

Children's attention to sample composition in learning, teaching and discovery

scientific article

Children's beliefs about causes of human characteristics: Genes, environment, or choice?

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

Children's category-based inferences affect classification

Children's descriptive-to-prescriptive tendency replicates (and varies) cross-culturally: Evidence from China

scientific article

Children's implicit food cognition: Developing a food Implicit Association Test

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Children's interpretation of generic noun phrases

scientific article

Children's interpretations of general quantifiers, specific quantifiers, and generics.

scientific article

Children's reasoning about physics within and across ontological kinds

scientific article published on August 2003

Children's recognition of time in the causes and cures of physical and emotional reactions to illnesses and injuries

scientific article published in August 2007

Children's sensitivity to the knowledge expressed in pedagogical and nonpedagogical contexts

scientific article (publication date: March 2013)

Children's understanding of the transmission of genetic disorders and contagious illnesses

scientific article published in January 2005

Children's use of adult testimony to guide food selection

scientific article published on 30 March 2008

Children, Object Value, and Persuasion

scientific article published in 2019

Components of young children's trait understanding: behavior-to-trait inferences and trait-to-behavior predictions

scientific article published in September 2007

Concepts and folk theories

scientific article published on 29 June 2011

Conceptual and lexical hierarchies in young children

Conceptual influences on category-based induction

scientific article published on 18 March 2013

Cross-cultural differences in children's beliefs about the objectivity of social categories

scientific article published on 12 April 2013

Determinants of Gender Essentialism in College Students

Determining that a label is kind-referring: factors that influence children's and adults' novel word extensions

scientific article

Developing Digital Privacy: Children's Moral Judgments Concerning Mobile GPS Devices.

scientific article published on 7 May 2017

Developing domain-specific causal-explanatory frameworks: the role of insides and immanence

Development of Teleological Explanations in Peruvian Quechua-Speaking and U.S. English-Speaking Preschoolers and Adults.

scientific article

Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction

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Developmental Changes in Judgments of Authentic Objects

scientific article

Developmental Changes in the Consideration of Sample Diversity in Inductive Reasoning

Developmental changes in the coherence of essentialist beliefs about psychological characteristics

scientific article published in May 2007

Developmental changes in the understanding of generics

scientific article

Differences in preschoolers' and adults' use of generics about novel animals and artifacts: a window onto a conceptual divide

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Differences in the Evaluation of Generic Statements About Human and Non-Human Categories.

scientific article published on 4 November 2016

Different kinds of concepts and different kinds of words: What words do for human cognition

scholarly article published 14 January 2010

Dirty Money: The Role of Moral History in Economic Judgments

scientific article

Disentangling similarity judgments from pragmatic judgments: Response to Sloutsky and Fisher (2012).

scientific article published on May 2012

Do Children See in Black and White? Children's and Adults' Categorizations of Multiracial Individuals

scientific article

Do Varieties of Spanish Influence U.S. Spanish-English Bilingual Children's Friendship Judgments?

scientific article

Do children endorse psychosocial factors in the transmission of illness and disgust?

scientific article

Do lions have manes? For children, generics are about kinds rather than quantities

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

Domains and Naive Theories

scientific article published on September 2011

Early Conceptual Development

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Early word-learning entails reference, not merely associations

scientific article

Effects of categorical labels on similarity judgments: a critical analysis of similarity-based approaches

scientific article

Effects of generic language on category content and structure

scientific article

Effects of language and similarity on comparison processing

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

El aprendizaje de los conceptos genéricos entre niños quechuahablantes monolingües*

Eleanor Emmons Maccoby (1917-2018)

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Essentialism and Racial Bias Jointly Contribute to the Categorization of Multiracial Individuals

scientific article published on September 2015

Essentialist beliefs about bodily transplants in the United States and India

scientific article published on 30 January 2013

Evidence for an explanation advantage in naïve biological reasoning

scientific article published on 16 August 2008

Examining explanatory biases in young children's biological reasoning

scientific article published on January 2014

Expressing generic concepts with and without a language model

scientific article published on 19 December 2004

Fast-mapping placeholders: Using words to talk about kinds

scientific article

Five-year-olds' beliefs about the discreteness of category boundaries for animals and artifacts

scientific article

Folk Biology as a Window onto Cognitive Development

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Four and 6-year olds' biological concept of death: The case of plants

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Frequency and Informativeness of Gestural Cues Accompanying Generic and Particular Reference

Gender Essentialism in Children and Parents: Implications for the Development of Gender Stereotyping and Gender-Typed Preferences

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Gender essentialism in transgender and cisgender children

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Generic Language Use Reveals Domain Differences in Children's Expectations about Animal and Artifact Categories

scientific article published on January 2013

Generic Language in Parent-Child Conversations ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2008

Generic Statements Require Little Evidence for Acceptance but Have Powerful Implications ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Generic language and judgements about category membership: Can generics highlight properties as central?

scientific article published on May 2009

Generic language facilitates children's cross-classification

scientific article published on April 2012

Generic language in scientific communication

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

Generics as a Window onto Young Children's Concepts

Generics license 30-month-olds' inferences about the atypical properties of novel kinds

scientific article published on 8 August 2016

Getting What You Pay For: Children's Use of Market Norms to Regulate Exchanges

scientific article published on 11 May 2018

Group presence, category labels, and generic statements influence children to treat descriptive group regularities as prescriptive

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

History and essence in human cognition

scientific article published in April 2013

How "you" makes meaning

scientific article published in March 2017

How deep do we dig? Formal explanations as placeholders for inherent explanations.

scientific article published on 4 September 2018

How does "emporiophobia" develop?

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

How language shapes the cultural inheritance of categories

scientific article

How much are Harry Potter's glasses worth? Children's monetary evaluation of authentic objects

scientific article

I'll have what she's having: the impact of model characteristics on children's food choices

scientific article published on 2 November 2011

Inconsistency with prior knowledge triggers children's causal explanatory reasoning

scientific article

Individual differences in children's and parents' generic language

scientific article

Inductions from novel categories: The role of language and conceptual structure

Informants' traits weigh heavily in young children's trust in testimony and in their epistemic inferences

scientific article

Insides and essences: Early understandings of the non-obvious

scientific article published on 01 March 1991

Knowledge of illness during childhood: Making distinctions between cancer and colds

Learning from others: children's construction of concepts

scientific article

Learning words from pictures: 15- and 17-month-old infants appreciate the referential and symbolic links among words, pictures, and objects

Lessons learned: Young children's use of generic-you to make meaning from negative experiences

scientific article published on 09 July 2018

Looking beyond looks: comments on Sloutsky, Kloos, and Fisher (2007).

scientific article published in June 2007

Making Boundaries Great Again: Essentialism and Support for Boundary-Enhancing Initiatives

scientific article published in August 2017

Memory errors reveal a bias to spontaneously generalize to categories.

scientific article

Memory for generic and quantified sentences in Spanish-speaking children and adults

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

Modules, theories, or islands of expertise? Domain specificity in socialization

scientific article published on May 2010

More than meets the eye: Young children’s trust in claims that defy their perceptions

scientific article published on 09 September 2013

Mother-child conversations about pictures and objects: referring to categories and individuals

scientific article published in November 2005

Multiracial Children's and Adults' Categorizations of Multiracial Individuals

scientific article published on 23 February 2016

My Heart Made Me Do It: Children's Essentialist Beliefs About Heart Transplants.

scientific article published on 17 November 2016

Ownership Matters: People Possess a Naïve Theory of Ownership

scientific article published on 26 December 2018

Perceptions of the malleability of fluid and crystallized intelligence

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Picasso Paintings, Moon Rocks, and Hand-Written Beatles Lyrics: Adults' Evaluations of Authentic Objects

scientific article

Preschool children use linguistic form class and pragmatic cues to interpret generics

scientific article published in January 2003

Preschool ontology: The role of beliefs about category boundaries in early categorization

scientific article published on January 2014

Preschool-age children and adults flexibly shift their preferences for auditory versus visual modalities but do not exhibit auditory dominance

scientific article

Preschoolers' search for explanatory information within adult-child conversation

scientific article

Preschoolers' use of spatiotemporal history, appearance, and proper name in determining individual identity

scientific article published on 6 September 2007

Psychological essentialism in children

scientific article published in September 2004

Psychological essentialism in selecting the 14th Dalai Lama

scientific article published on 5 June 2008

Quantified statements are recalled as generics: evidence from preschool children and adults

scientific article

Reasoning about knowledge: Children's evaluations of generality and verifiability

scientific article

Response to Sloutsky: taking development seriously: theories cannot emerge from associations alone

scientific article published on 29 July 2009

Robots and rodents: children's inferences about living and nonliving kinds

scientific article published in November 2007

Sample diversity and premise typicality in inductive reasoning: evidence for developmental change

scientific article published on 23 April 2008

Should Individuals Think Like Their Group? A Descriptive-to-Prescriptive Tendency Toward Group-Based Beliefs

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

Six does not just mean a lot: preschoolers see number words as specific

scientific article

So It Is, So It Shall Be: Group Regularities License Children's Prescriptive Judgments

scientific article published on 3 December 2016

South African Children's Understanding of AIDS and Flu: Investigating Conceptual Understanding of Cause, Treatment, and Prevention

scientific article

Spendthrifts and Tightwads in Childhood: Feelings about Spending Predict Children's Financial Decision-Making

That's how "you" do it: Generic you expresses norms during early childhood

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

The Medium is the Message: Pictures and Objects Evoke Distinct Conceptual Relations in Parent-Child Conversations

scientific article published on January 2013

The Perennial Debate: Nature, Nurture, or Choice? Black and White Americans' Explanations for Individual Differences

scientific article

The Role of Representational Status and Item Complexity in Parent-Child Conversations about Pictures and Objects ⬇️

scientific article published on January 2008

The Roles of Group Status and Group Membership in the Practice of Hypodescent

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

The development of children's identification of foreigner talk

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

The development of induction within natural kind and artifact categories

scientific article published in January 1988

The importance of clarifying evolutionary terminology across disciplines and in the classroom: a reply to Kampourakis

scientific article published on 06 November 2014

The influence of language form and conventional wording on judgments of illness

scientific article published in July 2007

The inherence heuristic: a basis for psychological essentialism?

scientific article published in October 2014

The nonobvious basis of ownership: preschool children trace the history and value of owned objects

scientific article

The perceived stability and biological basis of religious beliefs, factual beliefs, and opinions

scientific article published on 2 January 2017

The role of covariation versus mechanism information in causal attribution

scientific article

The role of essentialism in children's concepts

scientific article

The role of group norms in evaluating uncommon and negative behaviors

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

The role of preschoolers' social understanding in evaluating the informativeness of causal interventions

scientific article published on 26 November 2007

The value of variety and scarcity across development

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

Theory-based considerations influence the interpretation of generic sentences

scientific article

This cat has nine lives? Children's memory for genericity in language

scientific article published on September 2007

Tracking the actions and possessions of agents

scientific article

Two-year-olds use the generic/nongeneric distinction to guide their inferences about novel kinds

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Vitalism in naive biological thinking.

scientific article published in September 2000

What's so essential about essentialism? A different perspective on the interaction of perception, language, and conceptual knowledge

article published in 1993

When Worlds Collide – Or Do They? Implications of Explanatory Coexistence for Conceptual Development and Change

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When chatting about negative experiences helps-and when it hurts: Distinguishing adaptive versus maladaptive social support in computer-mediated communication

scientific article published on 10 January 2019

Who am I? The role of moral beliefs in children's and adults' understanding of identity

Who's the Boss? Concepts of Social Power Across Development.

scientific article

Why essences are essential in the psychology of concepts.

scientific article published in November 2001

You Get What You Need: An Examination of Purpose-Based Inheritance Reasoning in Undergraduates, Preschoolers, and Biological Experts

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

You can't always want what you get: Children's intuitions about ownership and desire

scientific article

Young Children Prefer and Remember Satisfying Explanations

scientific article published on 23 February 2016

Young children are sensitive to how an object was created when deciding what to name it.

scientific article published on August 2000

Young children's preference for unique owned objects

scientific article published on 7 July 2016

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