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_id: '13634'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Social categorization is a crucial information processing strategy that adults
    deliberately adjust depending on goals and situational requirements. This study
    investigated whether flexibility in categorization is similarly present among
    preschool children. More specifically, we tested whether spontaneous gender categorizations
    are more pronounced for children with a situationally induced abstract compared
    to concrete construal level mindset. Sixty-one children first participated in
    a construal mindset induction task before completing a visual variant of the "who
    said what" memory task. Systematic memory confusions indicated that all children
    engaged in gender-based social categorization but that this tendency was accentuated
    in the abstract compared to concrete mindset condition. These results suggest
    an ability of children to modulate social categorizations. Implications for the
    development of intergroup biases are discussed.
article_number: '103708'
author:
- first_name: Georg
  full_name: Halbeisen, Georg
  id: '85780'
  last_name: Halbeisen
  orcid: 0000-0002-9529-2215
- first_name: Mariela E.
  full_name: Jaffé, Mariela E.
  last_name: Jaffé
citation:
  ama: Halbeisen G, Jaffé ME. Construal level mindsets modulate gender categorizations
    in preschool children. <i>Acta Psychologica</i>. 2022;229. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708">10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708</a>
  apa: Halbeisen, G., &#38; Jaffé, M. E. (2022). Construal level mindsets modulate
    gender categorizations in preschool children. <i>Acta Psychologica</i>, <i>229</i>,
    Article 103708. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708</a>
  bjps: <b>Halbeisen G and Jaffé ME</b> (2022) Construal Level Mindsets Modulate Gender
    Categorizations in Preschool Children. <i>Acta Psychologica</i> <b>229</b>.
  chicago: Halbeisen, Georg, and Mariela E. Jaffé. “Construal Level Mindsets Modulate
    Gender Categorizations in Preschool Children.” <i>Acta Psychologica</i> 229 (2022).
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708</a>.
  chicago-de: Halbeisen, Georg und Mariela E. Jaffé. 2022. Construal level mindsets
    modulate gender categorizations in preschool children. <i>Acta Psychologica</i>
    229. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708">10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708</a>,
    .
  din1505-2-1: '<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Halbeisen, Georg</span> ; <span
    style="font-variant:small-caps;">Jaffé, Mariela E.</span>: Construal level mindsets
    modulate gender categorizations in preschool children. In: <i>Acta Psychologica</i>
    Bd. 229, Elsevier BV (2022)'
  havard: G. Halbeisen, M.E. Jaffé, Construal level mindsets modulate gender categorizations
    in preschool children, Acta Psychologica. 229 (2022).
  ieee: 'G. Halbeisen and M. E. Jaffé, “Construal level mindsets modulate gender categorizations
    in preschool children,” <i>Acta Psychologica</i>, vol. 229, Art. no. 103708, 2022,
    doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708">10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708</a>.'
  mla: Halbeisen, Georg, and Mariela E. Jaffé. “Construal Level Mindsets Modulate
    Gender Categorizations in Preschool Children.” <i>Acta Psychologica</i>, vol.
    229, 103708, 2022, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708</a>.
  short: G. Halbeisen, M.E. Jaffé, Acta Psychologica 229 (2022).
  ufg: '<b>Halbeisen, Georg/Jaffé, Mariela E.</b>: Construal level mindsets modulate
    gender categorizations in preschool children, in: <i>Acta Psychologica</i> 229
    (2022).'
  van: Halbeisen G, Jaffé ME. Construal level mindsets modulate gender categorizations
    in preschool children. Acta Psychologica. 2022;229.
date_created: 2026-03-27T10:08:14Z
date_updated: 2026-04-10T09:12:47Z
department:
- _id: DEP1500
doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103708
extern: '1'
external_id:
  isi:
  - '000927579300011'
  pmid:
  - '35964375'
intvolume: '       229'
isi: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
pmid: '1'
publication: Acta Psychologica
publication_identifier:
  eissn:
  - 1873-6297
  issn:
  - 0001-6918
publication_status: published
publisher: Elsevier BV
status: public
title: Construal level mindsets modulate gender categorizations in preschool children
type: scientific_journal_article
user_id: '83778'
volume: 229
year: '2022'
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