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Liberman Z, Woodward AL, Kinzler KD. The Origins of Social Categorization. Trends Cogn Sci. 2017;21(7):556-568doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.04.004.
Liberman, Z., Woodward, A. L., & Kinzler, K. D. (2017). The Origins of Social Categorization. Trends in cognitive sciences, 21(7), 556-568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2017.04.004
Liberman, Zoe, et al. "The Origins of Social Categorization." Trends in cognitive sciences vol. 21,7 (2017): 556-568. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2017.04.004
Liberman Z, Woodward AL, Kinzler KD. The Origins of Social Categorization. Trends Cogn Sci. 2017 Jul;21(7):556-568. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.04.004. Epub 2017 May 09. PMID: 28499741; PMCID: PMC5605918.
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Trends Cogn Sci. 2017 Jul;21(7):556-568. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.04.004. Epub 2017 May 09.

The Origins of Social Categorization.

Trends in cognitive sciences

Zoe Liberman, Amanda L Woodward, Katherine D Kinzler

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, 5848 South University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
  3. Departments of Psychology and Human Development, Cornell University, 244 Uris Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

PMID: 28499741 PMCID: PMC5605918 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.04.004

Abstract

Forming conceptually-rich social categories helps people to navigate the complex social world by allowing them to reason about the likely thoughts, beliefs, actions, and interactions of others, as guided by group membership. Nevertheless, social categorization often has nefarious consequences. We suggest that the foundation of the human ability to form useful social categories is in place in infancy: social categories guide the inferences infants make about the shared characteristics and social relationships of other people. We also suggest that the ability to form abstract social categories may be separable from the eventual negative downstream consequences of social categorization, including prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping. Although a tendency to form inductively-rich social categories appears early in ontogeny, prejudice based on each particular category dimension may not be inevitable.

Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords: essentialism; infant; intergroup cognition; prejudice; social categorization; stereotype

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