Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

All human societies are permeated by collectively shared entities that govern daily social
interactions and promote coordination and cooperation: norms. While the study of norm …

Although psychologists have paid scant attention to the sense of obligation as a distinctly
human motivation, moral philosophers have identified two of its key features: First, it has a …

Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of
sociolinguistics since the inception of the field. In contrast to social sciences, however …

Human social life depends heavily on social norms that prescribe and proscribe specific
actions. Typically, young children learn social norms from adult instruction. In the work …

Being a member of a peer group involves making decisions about whom to include in or
exclude from the group. Sometimes these decisions are related to whether members of the …

At around their third birthday, children begin to enforce social norms on others impersonally,
often using generic normative language, but little is known about the developmental building …

Much research has investigated how children relate to norms taught to them by adult
authorities. Very few studies have investigated norms that arise out of children's own peer …

Cross-cultural comparisons provide critical insight into variation in reasoning about
intelligence. In two studies, the authors used a novel methodology based on multivocal …

Human adults incline toward moral objectivism but may approach things more relativistically
if different cultures are involved. In this study, 4-, 6-, and 9-year-old children (N= 136) …