Categories Influence Predictions About Individual Consistency
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Categories influence predictions about individual consistency.
Predicting how people will behave in the future is a critical social-cognitive task. In four studies (N = 150, ages preschool to adult), young children (ages 4-5) used category information to guide their expectations about individual consistency. They predicted that psychological properties (preferences and fears) would remain consistent over time after hearing one example in which properties f...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Child Development
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0009-3920,1467-8624
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01188.x