Is the inherence heuristic needed to understand system-justifying tendencies among children?
Evidence that children's system-justifying preferences track the extent of group-based status differences is consistent with the inherence heuristic account. However, evidence that children are inferring inherence per se, or that such inferences are the cause of system-justifying preferences, is missing. We note that, until direct evidence of the inherence heuristic is available, alternative models should not be ignored.
Department of Psychology,University of Washington,Seattle,WA 98195-1525.anewheiser@albany.eduhttp://newheiser.socialpsychology.org/krolson@uw.eduhttps://depts.washington.edu/uwkids/krolson/
Anna-Kaisa
AK
Newheiser
Department of Psychology,University of Washington,Seattle,WA 98195-1525.anewheiser@albany.eduhttp://newheiser.socialpsychology.org/krolson@uw.eduhttps://depts.washington.edu/uwkids/krolson/
Kristina R
KR
Olson
D003071:Cognition; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008128:Logic