Exploring the Nature of Early Social Preferences by Gaye Soley, Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University<\/p>\n
The human social world is remarkably complex and varied: diverse factors, including language, gender, political affiliation, and preferences for sports teams, modulate people\u2019s social choices and social interactions. Children also choose social partners based on some of these attributes, however, it is unclear whether these choices rely on genuinely social factors: Children\u2019s preferences might reflect their sensitivity to agents\u2019 group membership. Alternatively, these preferences might reflect certain emotional biases (e.g., preference for the familiar or for the individuals who are perceived as similar to the self) that become linked to social groups only later in life. In this talk, I will present a series of experiments, in which I explore children\u2019s sensitivity to others\u2019 group membership and ask whether inferences of social group membership guide children\u2019 social choices from early on.<\/p>\n
DATE\t: Tuesday, 14 March
\nTIME\t: 12.40-13.30
\nROOM\t: A 130
\nBUILDING: FEASS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Exploring the Nature of Early Social Preferences by Gaye Soley, Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University The human social world is remarkably complex and varied: diverse factors, including language, gender, political affiliation, and preferences for sports teams, modulate people\u2019s social choices and social interactions. Children also choose social partners based on some of these [\u2026] <\/p>\n