Children and Adults Use Gender and Age Stereotypes in Ownership Judgments

Autor/inn/en	Malcolm, Sarah; Defeyter, Margaret A.; Friedman, Ori
Titel	Children and Adults Use Gender and Age Stereotypes in Ownership Judgments
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 15 (2014) 1, S.123-135 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2012.728545
Schlagwörter	Adults; Ownership; Stereotypes; Inferences; Preschool Children; Sex Stereotypes; Social Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Vignettes; Story Reading; Gender Differences; Scoring; Age Differences; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Eigentum; Klischee; Inference; Inferenz; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Ausland; Geschlechterkonflikt; Bewertung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	In everyday life, we are often faced with the problem of judging who owns an object. The current experiments show that children and adults base ownership judgments on group stereotypes, which relate kinds of people to kinds of objects. Moreover, the experiments show that reliance on stereotypes can override another means by which people make ownership judgments--inferring ownership from first possession. Experiment 1 replicates previous findings in showing that children and adults are strongly biased to assume that the first person to possess an object is its owner, while also demonstrating that the first-possession bias shows specificity to ownership. Experiment 2 shows that preschoolers and adults used gender stereotypes to make ownership judgments, and they do this even when stereotypes conflict with first possession. Experiment 3 reports similar findings but with age stereotypes. These findings reveal that stereotypes are a powerful means for making ownership judgments. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Psychology Press. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10