A developmental examination of the conceptual structure of animal, artifact, and human social categories across two cultural contexts

2009/06/14 by Marjorie Rhodes, Susan A. Gelman · 333 citations
Psychology · #Animal and Plant Science Education #Artifact (error) #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognitive psychology #Context (archaeology) #Cultural Differences and Values #Developmental psychology #Geography #Natural (archaeology) #Naturalness #Psychology #Social category #Social environment #Social psychology #Social science #Sociology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2009.05.001

published in Cognitive Psychology 59(3), 244-274 (Elsevier BV)

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