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64So It Is, So It Shall Be: Group Regularities License Children's Prescriptive JudgmentsCognitive Science 41 (S3): 576-600. 2017.When do descriptive regularities become prescriptive norms? We examined children's and adults' use of group regularities to make prescriptive judgments, employing novel groups that engaged in morally neutral behaviors. Participants were introduced to conforming or non-conforming individuals. Children negatively evaluated non-conformity, with negative evaluations declining with age. These effects were replicable across competitive and cooperative intergroup contexts and stemmed from reasoning abo…Read more
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63How biological is essentialismIn Douglas L. Medin & Scott Atran (eds.), Folkbiology, Mit Press. pp. 403--446. 1999.
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