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Journal Articles

Chalik, L. & Rhodes, M. (in press). Preschoolers use social allegiances to predict behavior. Journal of Cognition and Development. [pdf]

Rhodes, M. (in press). How two intuitive theories shape the development of social categorization. Child Development Perspectives. [pdf]

Rhodes, M. (in press). Naïve theories of social groups. Child Development. [pdf]

Rhodes, M. & Chalik, L. (in press). Social categories as markers of intrinsic personal obligations. Psychological Science. [pdf]

Rhodes, M., Gelman, S.A., & Karuza, J.C. (in press). Preschool ontology: The role of beliefs about category boundaries in early categorization. Journal of Cognition and Development. [pdf]

Rhodes, M. & Wellman, H. (in press). Constructing a new theory from old ideas and new evidence. Cognitive Science. [pdf]

Rhodes, M., Leslie, S.J., & Tworek, C. (2012). Cultural transmission of social essentialism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 13526-13531. [pdf]

Rhodes, M. & Brickman, D. (2011). The influence of competition on children’s social categories. Journal of Cognition and Development, 12, 194-221. [pdf]

Rhodes, M., & Brickman, D. (2010). The role of within-category variability in category-based induction: A developmental study. Cognitive Science, 34, 1561-1573. [pdf]

Rhodes, M., Gelman, S.A., & Brickman, D. (2010). Children’s attention to sample composition in learning, teaching, and discovery. Developmental Science, 12,421-429. [pdf]

Rhodes, M. & Gelman, S.A. (2009). A developmental examination of the conceptual structure of animal, artifact, and human social categories across two cultural contexts. Cognitive Psychology, 59, 294-274. [pdf]

Rhodes, M., & Gelman, S.A. (2009). Five-year-olds’ beliefs about the discreteness of category boundaries for animals and artifacts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 920-924. [pdf]

Taylor, M.G., Rhodes, M., & Gelman, S.A. (2009). Boys will be boys, cows will be cows: Children’s essentialist reasoning about human gender and animal development. Child Development, 79, 1270-1287. [pdf]

Rhodes, M., & Brickman, D. (2008). Preschoolers’ responses to social comparisons involving relative failure. Psychological Science, 19, 969-972. [pdf]

Rhodes, M., & Gelman, S.A. (2008). Categories influence predictions about individual consistency. Child Development, 79, 1271-1288. [pdf]

Rhodes, M., Brickman, D., & Gelman, S.A. (2008). Sample diversity and premise typicality in inductive reasoning: Evidence for developmental change. Cognition, 108, 543-556. [pdf]

Rhodes, M., Gelman, S.A., & Brickman, D. (2008). Developmental changes in the consideration of sample diversity in inductive reasoning. Journal of Cognition and Development, 9, 112-143. [pdf]

Chapters

Rhodes, M. (in press). Irrational inferences? When children ignore evidence in category-based induction. Advances in Child Development and Behavior. [pdf]

Rhodes, M. (in press). The social allegiance hypothesis. In M. Banaji & S.A. Gelman (Eds.), The Development of Social Cognition. New York: Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Gelman, S.A., & Rhodes, M. (in press). Concepts, development of. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Gelman, S.A., & Rhodes, M. (2012). “Two-thousand years of stasis”: How psychological essentialism impedes evolutionary understanding. In K.R. Rosengren, S. Brem, E.M. Evans, & G. Sinartra (Eds). Evolution challenges: Integrating research and practice in teaching and learning about evolution (pp. 3-21). New York: Oxford University Press. [pdf]