Promiscuous Normativity in Preschoolers
philosopher David Hume some 300 years ago. Schmidt, M. F. H., Butler, L. P., Heinz, J., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Young children see a single action and infer a social norm: Promiscuous normativity in 3-year-olds [...] Preschoolers Our study, recently published in Psychological Science, suggests that preschoolers have a tendency to infer the presence of social norms based on minimal evidence – that is, in situations in