Asst Prof of Psychology @ Vassar | Formerly @ Wesleyan, Tufts, Boston U, Harvard, & SUNY | 🏳️🌈 she/her | studying kids' ideas abt identity & inequality
Rebecca Peretz-Lange
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Essentialism folks:
My 3yo bit into a blueberry, saw the green flesh inside, and proclaimed “there’s avocado inside!” (She had earlier asked me what blueberries were made of). Isn’t she supposed to intuitively expect natural kinds‘ insides to determine their external properties? Help
the Sisyphean task of getting my 3yo to think situationally:
-she took my toys!
-well, some kids don't know to ask first
-she's not nice
-well, maybe her parents didn't teach her to ask
-maybe they did but she didn't listen
-well, we don't know what her home is like
-maybe her parents are not nice
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⭐️From Elizabeth Lapidow, Amberley Stein, Giovanni Thomas & Caren Walker:
Young Children Use Causal Knowledge to Guide Question Asking
Out in PNAS
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Inequality is not only hard to solve.
Sometimes, it is hard to *see*.
We ask a simple question: Do people notice when members of minority groups are absent?
Across field studies and experiments, the answer was often no.
Can infants or other animals represent "mutually exclusive possibilities"? In a new paper in JEP:G, we argue for specifying: in thinking or seeing? We show that in object perception (shared with infants and many animals), the answer is yes. (w Peter Mazalik & Roman Feiman) osf.io/preprints/ps... /1
Rebecca Peretz-Lange
Rebecca Peretz-Lange
New paper with @mohitmukherji.bsky.social, Mona Lebrun, and @marjorierhodes.bsky.social @JEP:G! Did you ever wonder whether saying things like “boys can wear dresses too” is effective at reducing stereotypical inferences? We find that they’re probably not—check out more here: doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
Hi everyone! My paper on cognitive representations of relationships and their developmental origins is finally out! I had a blast responding to the commentary and was honored to be able to engage with people who laid the foundation for my research program. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Abstract. Question asking is essential for learning in childhood. But options for possible questions are nearly infinite. We investigate whether causal kno
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