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Direct linkSmyth, Kirsty; Feeney, Aidan; Eidson, R. Cole; Coley, John D. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Social essentialism, the belief that members of certain social categories share unobservable properties, licenses expectations that those categories are natural and a good basis for inference. A challenge for cognitive developmental theory is to give an account of how children come to develop essentialist beliefs about socially important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Religion, Classification
