Publications

Social Kids Lab

Publications

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Shutts, K., & Spelke, E.S. (2004). Straddling the perception-conception boundary. Developmental Science, 7, 507-511.

Shutts, K., Banaji, M.R., & Spelke, E.S. (2010). Social categories guide young children's preferences for novel objects. Developmental Science, 13, 599-610.

Shutts, K., Ornkloo, H., von Hofsten, C., Keen, R., & Spelke, E.S. (2009). Young children's representations of spatial and functional relationships between objects. Child Development, 80, 1612-1627.

Shutts, K., Condry, K., Santos, L.R., & Spelke, E.S. (2009). Core knowledge and its limits: The domain of food. Cognition, 112, 120-140.

Shutts, K., Kinzler, K.D., McKee, C.B., & Spelke, E.S. (2009). Social information guides infants' selection of foods. Journal of Cognition and Development, 10, 1-17.

Kinzler, K.D., Shutts, K., DeJesus, J., & Spelke, E.S. (2009). Accent trumps race in guiding children's social preferences. Social Cognition, 27, 623-634.

Kinzler, K.D., & Shutts, K. (2008). Memory for "mean" over "nice": The influence of threat on children's face memory. Cognition, 107, 775-783.

Shutts, K., & Kinzler, K.D. (2007). An ambiguous-race illusion in children's face memory. Psychological Science, 18, 763-767.

Keen, R., & Shutts, K. (2007). Object and event representation in toddlers. In C. von Hofsten & K. Rosander (Eds.), Progress in Brain Research (Vol. 164: "From action to cognition"), 227-235.

Ganea, P.A., Shutts, K., Spelke, E.S., & DeLoache, J.S. (2007). Thinking of things unseen: Infants' use of language to update mental representations. Psychological Science, 18, 734-739.

Shutts, K., Keen, R., & Spelke, E.S. (2006). Object boundaries influence toddlers' performance in a search task. Developmental Science, 9, 97-107.

Kinzler, K., Shutts, K., & Correll, J. (2010). Priorities in social categories. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 581-592.

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Shutts, K., Markson, L., & Spelke, E.S. (2009). The developmental origins of animal and artifact concepts. In B. Hood & L. Santos (Eds.), The Origins of Object Knowledge (189-210). Oxford University Press.

Shutts, K., Kinzler, K.D., Katz, R.C., Tredoux, C., & Spelke, E.S. (2011). Race preference in children: insights from South Africa. Developmental Science, 14, 1283-1291.

Shutts, K. (2013). Is gender 'special'? M.R. Banaji & S.A. Gelman (eds.), Navigating the social world: The early years. (pp 297-300). New York: Oxford University Press.

Shutts, K., Roben, C.K.P., & Spelke, E.S. (in press). Children's use of social categories in thinking about people and social relationships. Journal of Cognition and Development. Click here to request a copy of this paper.

Baltazar, N., Shutts, K., Kinzler, K.D. (2012). Children show heightened memory for threatening social actions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112, 102-110.

Shutts, K,. Kinzler, K.D., & DeJesus, J. (2013). Understanding infants' and children's social learning about foods: Previous research and new prospects. Developmental Psychology, 49, 419-425.

Kinzler, K.D., Shutts, K., & Spelke, E.S. (in press). Language-based social preferences among multilingual children in South Africa. Language Learning and Development. Click here to request a copy of this paper.

Olson, K.R., Shutts, K., Kinzler, K.D., & Weisman, K.G. (2012). Children associate racial groups with wealth: Evidence from South Africa. Child Development, 83, 1884-1899.