Do Preschoolers Align Their Preferences With Those of a Powerful Individual?

Very early on, children understand the hierarchical dimension of social environment and use a variety cues to guess who has more power in an interaction. A crucial aspect perception lies evaluation high-power low-power individuals. The current study examined by preschoolers through influence. Past research shown that take category information into account when expressing their preferences. In particular, they tend align preferences with those same-gender same-age study, 4- 5-year-old were presented interaction between two body postures asked whether would prefer same items as preferred child or child. Overall, participants did not choose significantly often than However, unexpected gender effects found indicated asymmetry influenced male female participants. Indeed, saw boys (Experiments 1 2), aligned choices boy boy. girls (Experiment 3), opposite pattern was observed: girl girl. contrast, three experiments, there approximately many reveals importance taking account, both at level stimuli, preschoolers.