Do infants show social preferences for people differing in race?

Cognition

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Kinzler, Katherine D ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Infancy; Race; Social categories

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING TEST; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL COGNITION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951944885     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.10.019     Document Type: Article

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