Developmental shifts toward structural explanations and interventions for social status disparities
| Autor: | Jennifer A. Perry, Paul Muentener, Rebecca Peretz-Lange |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Essentialism
05 social sciences Social change Psychological intervention Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Social preferences 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Framing (social sciences) Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Causal reasoning Psychology Attribution 050104 developmental & child psychology Social status |
| Zdroj: | Cognitive Development. 58:101042 |
| ISSN: | 0885-2014 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101042 |
| Popis: | As part of their early “essentialist” intuitions, young children view intergroup differences as reflecting groups’ intrinsic natures. In the present study, we explore the nature and development of “structural” reasoning, or view of intergroup differences as reflecting groups’ extrinsic circumstances. We introduced participants (n = 315; ages 5–6, 9–10, and adults) to novel intergroup status disparities that could be attributed to either personal or structural causes. Disparities were verbally framed in either intrinsic, neutral or extrinsic terms. We assessed attributions by asking participants to explain the disparities and to offer interventions for them. We also assessed participants’ status-based social preferences. We found that attributions shifted from personal to structural over development. Explanations and interventions for the disparities were correlated and related to the same predictors (framing and age) and outcomes (social preferences), although interventions were consistently more structural than explanations. Implications for essentialism, causal reasoning, and social development are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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