{"pk":27014,"title":"The Development of Structural Thinking about Social Categories","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Representations of social categories help us make sense of thesocial world, supporting predictions and explanations aboutgroups and individuals. Here we explore whether children andadults are able to understanding category-property associationsin structural terms, locating an object of explanation within alarger structure and identifying structural constraints that acton elements of the structure. We show that children as young3-4 years of age show signs of structural thinking, but that thiscapacity does not fully develop until after 7 years of age. Thesefindings introduce a viable alternative to internalist accounts ofsocial categories, such as psychological essentialism.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"structural explanation"},{"word":"structural factors"},{"word":"socialcategories"},{"word":"essentialism"},{"word":"category representation"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vc7d8jb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Nadya","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vasilyeva","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Alison","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gopnik","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Tania","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lombrozo","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T21:00:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27014/galley/16650/download/"}]}