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Children's Social Category-Based Giving and Its Correlates: Expectations and Preferences by Renno, Maggie P, Shutts, Kristin

“…Do young children use information about gender and race to guide their prosocial gestures, and to what extent is children's selective prosociality related to…”
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Children Use Nonverbal Cues to Make Inferences About Social Power by Brey, Elizabeth, Shutts, Kristin

“…Four studies (N = 192) tested whether young children use nonverbal information to make inferences about differences in social power. Five- and six-year-old…”
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Parents’ Role in Addressing Children’s Racial Bias: The Case of Speculation Without Evidence by Scott, Katharine E., Shutts, Kristin, Devine, Patricia G.

“…Children begin displaying racial biases early in development, which has led many authors of popular-press articles to generate suggestions for preventing and…”
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Children Use Wealth Cues to Evaluate Others by Shutts, Kristin, Brey, Elizabeth L, Dornbusch, Leah A, Slywotzky, Nina, Olson, Kristina R

“…Wealth differences between individuals are ubiquitous in modern society, and often serve as the basis for biased social evaluations among adults. The present…”
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Social categories guide young children's preferences for novel objects by Shutts, Kristin, Banaji, Mahzarin R., Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…To whom do children look when deciding on their own preferences? To address this question, 3‐year‐old children were asked to choose between objects or…”
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Understanding Infants' and Children's Social Learning about Foods: Previous Research and New Prospects by Shutts, Kristin, Kinzler, Katherine D, DeJesus, Jasmine M

“…Developmental psychologists have devoted significant attention to investigating how children learn from others' actions, emotions, and testimony. Yet most of…”
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Memory for “mean” over “nice”: The influence of threat on children’s face memory by Kinzler, Katherine D., Shutts, Kristin

“…Adults remember faces of threatening over non-threatening individuals. This memory advantage could be indicative of a system rooted deeply in cognitive…”
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Social Information Guides Infants' Selection of Foods by Shutts, Kristin, Kinzler, Katherine D., McKee, Caitlin B., Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…Two experiments investigated the influence of socially conveyed emotions and speech on infants' choices among food. After watching films in which two…”
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Effects of early institutionalization on the development of emotion processing: a case for relative sparing? by Moulson, Margaret C., Shutts, Kristin, Fox, Nathan A., Zeanah, Charles H., Spelke, Elizabeth S., Nelson, Charles A.

“…We tested the capacity to perceive visual expressions of emotion, and to use those expressions as guides to social decisions, in three groups of 8‐ to…”
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Young Children's Preferences: Gender, Race, and Social Status by Shutts, Kristin

“…In this article, I consider how two aspects of society—social categories (in particular, gender and race) and social status—guide young children's preferences…”
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Young Children's Representations of Spatial and Functional Relations Between Objects by Shutts, Kristin, Örnkloo, Helena, Von Hofsten, Claes, Keen, Rachel, Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…Three experiments investigated changes from 15 to 30 months of age in children's (N = 114) mastery of relations between an object and an aperture, supporting…”
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When Helping Hurts: Children Think Groups That Receive Help Are Less Smart by Sierksma, Jellie, Shutts, Kristin

“…Helping has many positive consequences for both helpers and recipients. However, in the present research, we considered a possible downside to receiving help:…”
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Competence-based helping: Children’s consideration of need when providing others with help by Sierksma, Jellie, Shutts, Kristin

“…•Is 4- to 8-year-old children’s helping influenced by other people’s competence?•With age, children were more likely to provide more help to incompetent…”
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Children Use Nonverbal Cues from an Adult to Evaluate Peers by Brey, Elizabeth, Shutts, Kristin

“…What factors contribute to children's tendency to view individuals as having different traits and abilities? The present research tested whether young children…”
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Waysi»? to promote and foster collaborative research in your lab by Kinzler, Katherine D, Shutts, Kristin

“…Top tips for principal investigators to help junior scientists navigate the travails of teamwork…”
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Early preschool environments and gender: Effects of gender pedagogy in Sweden by Shutts, Kristin, Kenward, Ben, Falk, Helena, Ivegran, Anna, Fawcett, Christine

“…•We compared children in a gender-neutral preschool to those attending other preschools in Sweden.•Children at the gender-neutral school scored lower on a…”
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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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Young children's automatic encoding of social categories by Weisman, Kara, Johnson, Marissa V., Shutts, Kristin

“…The present research investigated young children's automatic encoding of two social categories that are highly relevant to adults: gender and race. Three‐ to…”
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Children's Developing Judgments About the Physical Manifestations of Power by Terrizzi, Brandon F., Brey, Elizabeth, Shutts, Kristin, Beier, Jonathan S.

“…When navigating unfamiliar social environments, it is important to identify who is powerful. Determining who has power can be challenging because observers may…”
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Racial Stereotype Application in 4-to-8-Year-Old White American Children: Emergence and Specificity by Sierksma, Jellie, Brey, Elizabeth, Shutts, Kristin

“…Young children's racial stereotyping is poorly understood even though stereotyping can influence individuals' attitudes and behavior toward others. Here we…”
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