While a great deal of work is focused on understanding the gender gap in wages in adults, we know virtually nothing about whether children also expect males and females to be compensated differently for performing the same work.

In a recent study at our lab, we examined whether children at 5 years and 9 years of age would use the dimensions of warmth and competence to rate a number of social groups the same way that adults would.

We recently conducted studies exploring how young children (3- through 6-year-olds) reason about others on the basis of information about shared likes versus shared dislikes.