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Siddiqui, Hasan; Rutherford, M. D. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Essentialism is the intuition that category membership relies on an invisible essence. Essentialist thinking about social categories is most evident in young children, while comparable methods do not reveal essentialist thinking about social groups in adult participants. However, previous work has found that essentialist thinking about gender was…
Descriptors: Intuition, Self Concept, Social Differences, Group Membership
Chapman, Marilyn; Filipenko, Margot; McTavish, Marianne; Shapiro, Jon – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
In this article, we report on grade-one children's preferences for narrative and/or information books, and their perceptions of what boys and girls like to read. Data include responses on two book preference tasks by 40 children in four schools. Children chose books and explained the reasons for their choices. One task was a closed, force-choice…
Descriptors: Females, Reading Material Selection, Literature Appreciation, Grade 1