Twenty-five years of consumer socialization research have yielded an impressive set of
findings. The purpose of our article is to review these findings and assess what we know …

Social categorization defines intergroup relations in ways that are not always simple and
clear‐cut, but often complex and multifaceted. There are diverse, overlapping, and …

Discusses general conceptual growth, with special emphasis on the contributions of Piaget.
Other areas discussed—including social cognition, perception, and memory—are based …

Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as" dog,"" man," or" intelligence," have
an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea …

The question of what makes a concept coherent (what makes its members form a
comprehensible class) has received a variety of answers. In this article we review accounts …

In this landmark work on early conceptual and lexical development, Ellen Markman explores
the fascinating problem of how young children succeed at the task of inducing concepts …

Anyone sufficiently motivated to take an undergraduate or graduate course in this area
should find [in this book] a great deal to intrigue the imagination and stimulate further interest …

One of the primary functions of natural kind terms (eg, tiger, gold) is to support inductive
inferences. People expect members of such categories to share important, unforeseen …

This paper views lexical acquisition as a problem of induction: Children must figure out the
meaning of a given term, given the large number of possible meanings any term could have …

In this volume, two scholars with different but complementary interests in memory and
cognitive development present a careful overview of the field of memory development from …