{"pk":28179,"title":"Consistent but not diagnostic: Preschoolers’ intuitions about shared preferences within social groups","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Social groups highlight latent structure in the social worldand support inductive inferences about individuals. In thepresent work, we examined children and adults’ intuitionsabout shared preferences within social groups. In Exp.1, 3- to5-year-old children treated preferences as a consistent propertyof social groups; that is, children expected members of a so-cial group to like the same toys that other members have liked.However, they did not treat preferences as diagnostic of socialgroups; they did not expect individuals to belong to a groupthat shares their preferences. By contrast, in Exp.2, adultsreadily treated preferences as both a consistent and diagnos-tic property of social groups. These results suggest that chil-dren’s inferences about social groups are asymmetric: Chil-dren readily infer preferences based on group membership, butnot group membership based on preferences.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"social cognitive development; social categories"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2607h5vq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Natalia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Velez","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford","department":""},{"first_name":"Yuerui","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wu","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Berkley","department":""},{"first_name":"Hyowon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gweon","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28179/galley/17838/download/"}]}