Nicholaus S Noles
Biographic Data
| ID | 4226451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholaus S Noles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholaus S |
| FAMILY NAME | Noles |
| SIGNATURE | NOLES N S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0419-192X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Children’s beliefs about Black and White men’s and women’s scientific knowledge
Children are sensitive to other's knowledge and social characteristics when seeking out information, but little is known about how adults' gender and race interact to influence children's beliefs about adults' knowledge. In two studies, 5-8-year-olds ( N = 257; 127 girls; 130 boys; 73% White) saw photos of Black and White men and women and rated each adults' science knowledge. In Study 1, children then viewed four adult faces together (one from e…
She should get her own cat”
Preliminary evidence for progressions in ownership reasoning over the preschool period
Defining developmental progressions can be an important step in identifying developmental precursors and mechanisms of change, within and across areas of reasoning. In one exploratory study, we examine whether the development of children's thinking about ownership follows a systematic progression wherein some components emerge reliably before others. We examine this issue in a sample of 72 children: 40 older 2-year-olds, M age = 2.78 (.14); R = 2…
To Give or to Receive? The Role of Giver Versus Receiver on Object Tracking and Object Preferences in Children and Adults
For adults, ownership is a concept that rests on principles and connections that apply broadly – whether the owner is the self or someone else, and whether the self is giver or receiver. The present studies tested whether preschool children likewise treat ownership in this abstract fashion. In Experiment 1, 20 children and 24 adults were assigned to be either “givers” or “receivers.” They were then asked to identify which items they and the resea…
Beliefs About the Persistence of History in Objects and Spaces in the United States and India
Scattered evidence in the literature suggests that people may believe that non-visible traces of past events (e.g., origins, emotions, and qualities of the owner) persist over time in objects and spaces, even after the original source has been removed. To date, however, there has been no unified treatment to determine the scope and cultural consistency of this expectation. This study had four primary goals: (a) to assess how broadly participants …
Salience or centrality
This study explores how feature salience and feature centrality influence inductive generalization in 4- and 5-year-old children and adults. Recent reports indicate that enhancing the salience of a feature-specifically, a creature's head-by making it move shifts children's inductions so that they ignore labels and make inferences that are consistent with cues provided by attentional capture (Deng & Sloutsky, 2012, 2013). However, prior research i…
Children’s and Adults’ Intuitions about Who Can Own Things
The understanding that people can own certain things is essential for activities such as trading, lending, sharing, and use of currency. In two studies, children in grades K, 2, and 4 ( N = 118) and adults ( N = 40) were asked to identify whether four kinds of individuals could be owners: typical humans, non-human animals, artifacts, and atypical humans (e.g., individuals who were sleeping or unable to move). Participants in all age groups attrib…
Disentangling similarity judgments from pragmatic judgments
Sloutsky and Fisher (2012) attempt to reframe the results presented in Noles and Gelman (2012) as a pure replication of their original work validating the similarity, induction, naming, and categorization (SINC) model. However, their critique fails to engage with the central findings reported in Noles and Gelman, and their reanalysis fails to examine the key comparison of theoretical interest. In addition to responding to the points raised in Slo…
Effects of categorical labels on similarity judgments
Our goal in the present study was to evaluate the claim that category labels affect children's judgments of visual similarity. We presented preschool children with discriminable and identical sets of animal pictures and asked them to make perceptual judgments in the presence or absence of labels. Our findings indicate that children who are asked to make perceptual judgments about identical items judge discriminable items less accurately when maki…
Exploring ownership in a developmental context
Ownership and economic behaviors are highly salient elements of the human social landscape. Indeed, the human world is literally constructed of property. Individuals perceive and manipulate a complex web of people and property that is largely invisible and abstract. In this chapter, the authors focus on drawing together information from a variety of disciplines, including legal theory, philosophy, psychology, and economics, to begin creating a co…
Preliminary evidence for progressions in ownership reasoning over the preschool period
Defining developmental progressions can be an important step in identifying developmental precursors and mechanisms of change, within and across areas of reasoning. In one exploratory study, we examine whether the development of children's thinking about ownership follows a systematic progression wherein some components emerge reliably before others. We examine this issue in a sample of 72 children: 40 older 2-year-olds, M age = 2.78 (.14); R = 2…
Exploring ownership in a developmental context
Ownership and economic behaviors are highly salient elements of the human social landscape. Indeed, the human world is literally constructed of property. Individuals perceive and manipulate a complex web of people and property that is largely invisible and abstract. In this chapter, the authors focus on drawing together information from a variety of disciplines, including legal theory, philosophy, psychology, and economics, to begin creating a co…
Children’s and Adults’ Intuitions about Who Can Own Things
The understanding that people can own certain things is essential for activities such as trading, lending, sharing, and use of currency. In two studies, children in grades K, 2, and 4 ( N = 118) and adults ( N = 40) were asked to identify whether four kinds of individuals could be owners: typical humans, non-human animals, artifacts, and atypical humans (e.g., individuals who were sleeping or unable to move). Participants in all age groups attrib…
Disentangling similarity judgments from pragmatic judgments
Sloutsky and Fisher (2012) attempt to reframe the results presented in Noles and Gelman (2012) as a pure replication of their original work validating the similarity, induction, naming, and categorization (SINC) model. However, their critique fails to engage with the central findings reported in Noles and Gelman, and their reanalysis fails to examine the key comparison of theoretical interest. In addition to responding to the points raised in Slo…
Effects of categorical labels on similarity judgments
Our goal in the present study was to evaluate the claim that category labels affect children's judgments of visual similarity. We presented preschool children with discriminable and identical sets of animal pictures and asked them to make perceptual judgments in the presence or absence of labels. Our findings indicate that children who are asked to make perceptual judgments about identical items judge discriminable items less accurately when maki…
Salience or centrality
This study explores how feature salience and feature centrality influence inductive generalization in 4- and 5-year-old children and adults. Recent reports indicate that enhancing the salience of a feature-specifically, a creature's head-by making it move shifts children's inductions so that they ignore labels and make inferences that are consistent with cues provided by attentional capture (Deng & Sloutsky, 2012, 2013). However, prior research i…
Beliefs About the Persistence of History in Objects and Spaces in the United States and India
Scattered evidence in the literature suggests that people may believe that non-visible traces of past events (e.g., origins, emotions, and qualities of the owner) persist over time in objects and spaces, even after the original source has been removed. To date, however, there has been no unified treatment to determine the scope and cultural consistency of this expectation. This study had four primary goals: (a) to assess how broadly participants …
To Give or to Receive? The Role of Giver Versus Receiver on Object Tracking and Object Preferences in Children and Adults
For adults, ownership is a concept that rests on principles and connections that apply broadly – whether the owner is the self or someone else, and whether the self is giver or receiver. The present studies tested whether preschool children likewise treat ownership in this abstract fashion. In Experiment 1, 20 children and 24 adults were assigned to be either “givers” or “receivers.” They were then asked to identify which items they and the resea…
She should get her own cat”
Preliminary evidence for progressions in ownership reasoning over the preschool period
Defining developmental progressions can be an important step in identifying developmental precursors and mechanisms of change, within and across areas of reasoning. In one exploratory study, we examine whether the development of children's thinking about ownership follows a systematic progression wherein some components emerge reliably before others. We examine this issue in a sample of 72 children: 40 older 2-year-olds, M age = 2.78 (.14); R = 2…
Children’s beliefs about Black and White men’s and women’s scientific knowledge
Children are sensitive to other's knowledge and social characteristics when seeking out information, but little is known about how adults' gender and race interact to influence children's beliefs about adults' knowledge. In two studies, 5-8-year-olds ( N = 257; 127 girls; 130 boys; 73% White) saw photos of Black and White men and women and rated each adults' science knowledge. In Study 1, children then viewed four adult faces together (one from e…
Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Property (philosophy (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)