Young Children Apply the Homophily Principle to Their Reasoning about Social Relationships

Autor/inn/en	King, Rachel Ann; Jordan, Ashley E.; Liberman, Zoe; Kinzler, Katherine D.; Shutts, Kristin
Titel	Young Children Apply the Homophily Principle to Their Reasoning about Social Relationships
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 59 (2023) 5, S.928-939 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (King, Rachel Ann)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001517
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Social Behavior; Congruence (Psychology); Preferences; Interpersonal Relationship; Age Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Congruence; Psychology; Kongruenz; Psychologie; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	People who are in close relationships tend to do and like the same things, a phenomenon termed the "homophily principle." The present research probed for evidence of the homophily principle in 4- to 6-year-old children. Across two experiments, participants (N = 327; 166 girls, 161 boys; located in the Midwestern United States) were asked to predict the closeness of two people based on their preferences. Participants in Experiment 1 indicated that people with a shared preference or a shared dispreference were more closely affiliated than people whose preferences diverged, suggesting inferences of homophily. Furthermore, children were not only relying on the emotional valences expressed: They expected people with a shared preference to be closer than people who expressed positive emotions about different items and expected people with a shared dispreference to be closer than people who expressed negative emotions about different items. Experiment 2 replicated and extended the main findings of Experiment 1 with more naturalistic stimuli. The present studies provide strong evidence that young children apply the homophily principle to their reasoning about social relationships. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01