@article{a0fd0e2184db4d6eb0fe9b38809e5cc9,
title = "{"}It feels like it's in your body{"}: How children in the United States think about nationality",
abstract = "Concepts of national groups (e.g., Americans, Canadians) are an important source of identity and meaning in people's lives. Here, we provide a developmental investigation of these concepts. Across 3 studies involving 5- to 8-year-olds and adults in the United States, we found that (a) compared with older children and adults, young children were more likely to think that national groups have a biological basis, but that (b) other aspects of national group concepts-such as the idea that national group membership is stable and informative about a person-changed less with development. Moreover, with age, the notion that membership in a national group is a meaningful fact about a person (vs. a mere formality) began to link up with attitudes that rationalized the national ingroup's economic advantages and portrayed it as superior to national outgroups. This work contributes to theory on the development of social cognition and provides a unique source of insight into current political trends.",
keywords = "Concepts, Development, Essentialism, National groups, Nationality, Mental Processes, Child Development/physiology, United States, Humans, Child, Preschool, Male, Emotions/physiology, Social Identification, Social Perception, Adult, Female, Child",
author = "Hussak, {Larisa J.} and Andrei Cimpian",
note = "Funding Information: This research was previously presented at the Central European University Conference on Cognitive Development (Budapest, Hungary; January, 2016) and the Tenth Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society (Portland, Oregon; October, 2017). The raw data and analytic syntax for the present research are available on the Open Science Framework, https://osf.io/qh2my/?view_only=8026414039ec48b3bf6a6d75c660 a517. Larisa J. Hussak acknowledges the support of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. We are grateful to the members of the Cognitive Development Lab at the University of Illinois and New York University for their help in conducting this research, as well as for their helpful comments on previous drafts of this article. Funding Information: This research was previously presented at the Central European University Conference on Cognitive Development (Budapest, Hungary; January, 2016) and the Tenth Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society (Portland, Oregon; October, 2017). The raw data and analytic syntax for the present research are available on the Open Science Frame-work, https://osf.io/qh2my/?view_only=8026414039ec48b3bf6a6d75c660 a517. Larisa J. Hussak acknowledges the support of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. We are grateful to the members of the Cognitive Development Lab at the University of Illinois and New York University for their help in conducting this research, as well as for their helpful comments on previous drafts of this article. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 American Psychological Association.",
year = "2019",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1037/xge0000567",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "148",
pages = "1153--1168",
journal = "Journal of Experimental Psychology: General",
issn = "0096-3445",
publisher = "American Psychological Association Inc.",
number = "7",
}