Search Results - "Heck, Isobel A."

Seasonal Changes in Color Preferences Are Linked to Variations in Environmental Colors: A Longitudinal Study of Fall by Schloss, Karen B., Heck, Isobel A.

“…People form associations between colors and entities, which influence their evaluations of the world. These evaluations are dynamic, as specific associations…”
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Children’s thinking about group-based social hierarchies by Heck, Isobel A., Shutts, Kristin, Kinzler, Katherine D.

“…Wealth, power, and status are distributed unevenly across social groups. A surge of recent research reveals that people being recognizing, representing, and…”
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Small groups lead, big groups control: Perceptions of numerical group size, power, and status across development by Heck, Isobel A., Bas, Jesús, Kinzler, Katherine D.

“…Participants (N = 384 three‐ to ten‐year‐olds; 51% girls, 49% boys; 73% White, 18% multiracial/other, 5% Asian, and 3% Black; N = 610 adults) saw depictions of…”
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Leadership, gender, and colorism: Children in India use social category information to guide leadership cognition by Santhanagopalan, Radhika, Heck, Isobel A., Kinzler, Katherine D.

“…Across the globe, women and racial minorities are underrepresented in leadership. We examined the development of 5–10‐year‐old children's leadership cognition…”
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Social Sampling: Children Track Social Choices to Reason About Status Hierarchies by Heck, Isobel A., Kushnir, Tamar, Kinzler, Katherine D.

“…We tested whether preschool-aged children (N = 280) track an agents' choices of individuals from novel social groups (i.e., social choices) to infer an agent's…”
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Building representations of the social world: Children extract patterns from social choices to reason about multi‐group hierarchies by Heck, Isobel A., Kushnir, Tamar, Kinzler, Katherine D.

“…How do children learn about the structure of the social world? We tested whether children would extract patterns from an agent's social choices to make…”
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"There Are No Band-Aids for Emotions": The Development of Thinking About Emotional Harm by Heck, Isobel A., Bregant, Jessica, Kinzler, Katherine D.

“…An understanding of harm is central to social and cognitive development, but harm largely has been conceptualized as physical damage or injury. Less research…”
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Development of beliefs about censorship by Anderson, Rajen A., Heck, Isobel A., Young, Kayla, Kinzler, Katherine D.

“…Across four studies (total N = 431), we examined 5- to 10-year-old children's choices to censor depictions of harm. In all studies, children learned about…”
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Understanding the Developmental Roots of Gender Gaps in Politics by Heck, Isobel A., Santhanagopalan, Radhika, Cimpian, Andrei, Kinzler, Katherine D.

“…Globally, women are underrepresented in politics. We propose developmental psychology offers an important, yet underused, theoretical lens for understanding…”
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An Integrative Developmental Framework for Studying Gender Inequities in Politics by Heck, Isobel A., Santhanagopalan, Radhika, Cimpian, Andrei, Kinzler, Katherine D.

“…Gender inequities in politics persist around the world. Research in political science and social psychology underscores how gender gaps in politics are fueled…”
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Seasonal Variations in Color Preference by Schloss, Karen B., Nelson, Rolf, Parker, Laura, Heck, Isobel A., Palmer, Stephen E.

“…We investigated how color preferences vary according to season and whether those changes could be explained by the ecological valence theory (EVT). To do so,…”
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Preschoolers' Compliance With Others' Violations of Fairness Norms: The Roles of Intentionality and Affective Perspective Taking by Heck, Isobel A., Chernyak, Nadia, Sobel, David M.

“…Young children are remarkably compliant with social norms, especially those governing fairness and equality. Yet children also frequently observe and face…”
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