Social groups are a pervasive feature of human life. One factor that is often understudied in
the literature on person perception and social categorization is language. Yet, someone's …

How does human cognition adapt to idiosyncratic features of our real-world experiences
across our lifetimes? The dynamic interaction between individuals and their natural …

Selecting appropriate foods is a complex and evolutionarily ancient problem, yet past
studies have revealed little evidence of adaptations present in infancy that support …

Infants increasingly attend to the mouths of others during the latter half of the first postnatal
year, and individual differences in selective attention to talking mouths during infancy predict …

Early in life, greater exposure to diverse people can change the tendency to prefer one's
own social group. For instance, infants from racially diverse environments show less …

When we compare human gestures to those of other apes, it looks at first like there is
nothing much to compare at all. In adult humans, gestures are thought to be a window into …

Many children around the world grow up bilingual, learning and using two or more
languages in everyday life. Currently, however, children's language backgrounds are not …

Presenting pictures of faces side by side is a common paradigm to assess infants' attentional
biases according to social categories, such as gender, race, and language. However …

Within the past decade, there has been an explosion of research investigating the cognitive
consequences of bilingualism. However, a controversy has arisen specifically involving …

Although children demonstrate robust social preferences for ingroup members early in
ontogeny, it is not yet clear whether these preferences are based on children generally liking …