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Scott, K.E., Shutts, K., & Devine, P.G. (in press). Children’s prejudice development and reduction: Challenges and opportunities. In T.D. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination (3rd ed., pp. xx-xx). Taylor & Francis.
Scott, K.E., Huth, N., Fukuda, E., Shutts, K., & Devine, P.G. (in press). Empowering Behaviors to Address Race with Kids (EmBARK): A racial socialization program for White families. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. [OSF Link]
Swerbenski, K.L., Barnett, K.C., Devine, P.G., & Shutts, K. (2024). Making “fast friends” online in middle childhood and early adolescence. Social Development, 33, e12708.
Scott, K.E., King, R.A., Cochrane, A., Kalish, C.W., & Shutts, K. (2023). Direct assessments of social skills can complement teacher ratings in predicting children’s academic achievement. Journal of Cognition and Development, 24(5), 735-759. [OSF Link]
Scott, K.E., Henkel, M.A., Moens, O.M., Devine, P.G., & Shutts, K. (2023). Children’s evaluations of and reactions to racial discrimination. Developmental Psychology, 59(7), 1190-1202. [OSF Link]
King, R.A., Jordan, A.E., Liberman, Z., Kinzler, K.D., & Shutts, K. (2023). Young children apply the homophily principle to their reasoning about social relationships. Developmental Psychology, 9, 928-939. [OSF Link]
Scott, K.E., Ash, T., Immel, B., Liebeck, M., Devine, P.G., & Shutts, K. (2023). Engaging White parents to address their White children’s biases in the Black-White context. Child Development, 94, 74– 92. [OSF Link]
Sierksma, J., Brey, E.L., & Shutts, K. (2022). Racial stereotype application in 4- to 8-year-old White American children: Emergence and specificity. Journal of Cognition and Development 23(5), 660–685. [OSF Link]
Heck, I.A., Shutts, K., & Kinzler, K.D. (2022). Children’s thinking about group-based hierarchies. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(7), 593–606.
Spelke, E.S., & Shutts, K. (2022). Learning in the early years. In M. Bendini & A. E. Devercelli (Eds.), Quality Early Learning: Nurturing Children’s Potential. World Bank.
Plate, R. C., Shutts, K., Cochrane, A., Green, C. S., & Pollak, S. D. (2021). Testimony bias lingers across development under uncertainty. Developmental Psychology, 57, 2150-2164. [OSF Link]
Shutts, K., & Kalish, C.W. (2021). Intuitive sociology. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 61, 335-374.
Sierksma, J., & Shutts, K. (2021). Competence-based helping: Children’s consideration of need when providing help to others. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210, 105206. [OSF links within paper PDF]
Scott, K.E., Shutts, K., & Devine, P.G. (2020). Parents’ role in addressing children’s racial bias: The case of speculation without evidence. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(5), 1178-1186. [OSF Link]
Sierksma, J., & Shutts, K. (2020). When Helping Hurts: Children think groups that receive help are less smart. Child Development, 91(3), 715–723. [OSF Link]
King, R., Scott, K.E., Renno, M.P., & Shutts, K. (2020). Counterstereotyping can change children’s thinking about boys’ and girls’ toy preferences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 191, 104753. [OSF Link]
Scott, K.E., Shutts, K., & Devine, P.G. (2020). Parents’ Expectations for and Reactions to Children’s Racial Biases. Child Development, 91(3), 715–723. [OSF Link]
DeJesus, J.M., Du, K.M., Shutts, K., & Kinzler, K.D. (2019). How information about what is “healthy” versus “unhealthy” impacts children’s consumption of otherwise identical foods. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(12), 2091-2103. [OSF Link]
Terrizzi, B., Brey, E.L., Shutts, K., & Beier, J.S. (2019). Children’s developing judgements about the physical manifestations of power. Developmental Psychology, 55, 793-808. [OSF Link]
Kinzler, K.D., & Shutts, K. (2018). Stronger together. Nature, 560, 673.
Brey, E.L., & Shutts, K. (2018). Children use nonverbal cues from an adult to evaluate peers. Journal of Cognition and Development, 19, 121-136. [OSF Link]
DeJesus, J.M., Shutts, K., & Kinzler, K.D. (2018). Mere social knowledge impacts children’s consumption and categorizations of foods. Developmental Science, 21, e12627.
DeJesus, J.M., Kinzler, K.D., & Shutts, K. (2018).Food cognition and nutrition knowledge. In J.C. Lumeng & J.O. Fisher (Eds.), Pediatric good preferences and eating behaviors (pp.271-288). Elsevier.
Plate, R.C., Fulvio, J.M., Shutts, K., Green, C.S., & Pollak, S.D. (2018). Probability learning: Changes in behavior across time and development. Child Development, 89, 205-218.
Shutts, K., Kenward, B., Falk, H., Ivegran, A., & Fawcett, C. (2017). Early environments and gender: Effects of gender pedagogy in Sweden.. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 162, 1-17. Click here to request a copy of this publication.
Kim, S., Kalish, C.W., Weisman, K., Johnson, M.V., & Shutts, K. (2016). Young children choose to inform previously knowledgeable others. Journal of Cognition and Development, 17.2, 320-340.
Shutts, K., Brey, E.L., Dornbusch, L.A., Slywotzky, N., & Olson, K.R. (2016). Children use wealth cues to evaluate others. PLOS ONE 11(3): e0149360.
Shutts, K. (2015). Young children’s preferences: Gender, race, and social status. Child Development Perspectives, 9, 262-266.
Weisman, K., Johnson, M.V., & Shutts, K. (2015). Young children’s automatic encoding of social categories. Developmental Science, 18, 1036-1043.
Renno, M.P., & Shutts, K. (2015). Children’s social category-based giving and its correlates: Expectations and preferences. Developmental Psychology, 51, 533-543.
Brey, E.L., & Shutts, K. (2015). Children use nonverbal cues to make inferences about social power. Child Development, 86, 276-286.
DeJesus, J.M., Shutts, K., & Kinzler, K.D. (2015). Eww she sneezed! Context affects children’s food preferences and consumption. Appetite, 87, 303-309.
Moulson, M.C., Shutts, K., Fox, N.A., Zeanah, C.H., Spelke, E.S., & Nelson, C.A. (2015). Effects of early institutionalization on the development of emotion processing: A case for relative sparing? Developmental Science, 18, 298-313.
Horwitz, S.R., Shutts, K., & Olson, K.R. (2014). Social class differences produce social group preferences. Developmental Science, 17, 991-1002.
Huckstadt, L.K., & Shutts, K. (2014). How young children evaluate people with and without disabilities. Journal of Social Issues (special issue on social exclusion), 70, 99-114.
Shutts, K., Roben, C.K.P., & Spelke, E.S. (2013). Children’s use of social categories in thinking about people and social relationships. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14, 35-62. Click here to request a copy of this publication.
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.
Shutts, K. (2013). Is gender ‘special’? In M.R. Banaji & S.A. Gelman (Eds.), Navigating the social world: What infants, children, and other species can teach us (pp. 297-300). New York: Oxford University Press.
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.
Kinzler, K.D., Shutts, K., & Spelke, E.S. (2012). Language-based social preferences among children in South Africa. Language Learning and Development, 8, 215-232.
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., Katz, R.C., Tredoux, C., & Spelke, E.S. (2011). Race preferences in children: Insights from South Africa. Developmental Science, 14, 1283-1291.
Shutts, K., Banaji, M.R., & Spelke, E.S. (2010). Social categories guide young children’s preferences for novel objects. Developmental Science, 13, 599-610.
Kinzler, K.D., Shutts, K., & Correll, J. (2010). Priorities in social categories. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 581-592.
Shutts, K., Ornkloo, H., von Hofsten, C., Keen, R., & Spelke, E.S. (2009). Young children’s representations of spatial and functional relations 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.
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 (pp. 189-210). Oxford University Press.
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.
Shutts, K., & Spelke, E.S. (2004). Straddling the perception-conception boundary. Developmental Science, 7, 507–511.