Thought and language: Effects of group‐mindedness on young children's 
interpretation of exclusive we

Vasil, Jared; Price, Dayna; Tomasello, Michael

doi:10.1111/cdev.14049

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Thought and language: Effects of group‐mindedness on young children's interpretation of exclusive we

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Tomasello, Michael
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Vasil, J., Price, D., & Tomasello, M. (2024). Thought and language: Effects of group‐mindedness on young children's interpretation of exclusive we. Child Development, 95(3):, pp. 657-1040. doi:10.1111/cdev.14049.

引用: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000E-1134-4

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The current study investigated whether age-related changes in the conceptualization of social groups influences interpretation of the pronoun we. Sixty-four 2- and 4-year-olds (N = 29 female, 50 White-identifying) viewed scenarios in which it was ambiguous how many puppets performed an activity together. When asked who performed the activity, a speaker puppet responded, “We did!” In one condition, the speaker was near one and distant from another puppet, implying a dyadic interpretation of we. In another condition, the speaker was distant from both, thus pulling for a group interpretation. In the former condition, 2- and 4-year-olds favored the dyadic interpretation. In the latter condition, only 4-year-olds favored the group interpretation. Age-related conceptual development “expands” the set of conceivable plural person referents. © 2023 The Authors. Child Development © 2023 Society for Research in Child Development.