Ya‐Fen Lo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5131204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ya‐Fen Lo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ya‐Fen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lo |
| SIGNATURE | LO Y F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unpacking children’s picturebooks about Filipino American culture
Unpacking Taiwanese/Taiwanese American Culture in Children’s Picturebooks in the U.S
The Influence of Perceptual Features, Ethnic Labels, and Sociocultural Information on the Development of Ethnic/Racial Bias in Young Children
Taiwanese children from 3 to 11 years of age were asked to identify their racial group membership and select potential playmates from arrays of racially diverse photos. Children at all age levels displayed some Asian bias; however, this bias was lowest in 10- to 11- year-olds. Same-race bias was also reduced in 8 to 9 year olds by labeling the Asian photos as an ethnicity other than Chinese. This labeling effect emerged and was strongest at the s…
How much does a shared name make things similar? Part 1. Linguistic labels and the development of similarity judgment
Most theoretical proposals considering effects of language on similarity assume that labels affect similarity in a qualitative all-or-nothing manner. This article proposes another theoretical alternative--a model of the label as a discrete attribute of an object. According to this model, the relative weight of labels decreases with the child's age. Predictions derived from the model were tested in 3 experiments. In these experiments, children age…
The Influence of Perceptual Features, Ethnic Labels, and Sociocultural Information on the Development of Ethnic/Racial Bias in Young Children
Taiwanese children from 3 to 11 years of age were asked to identify their racial group membership and select potential playmates from arrays of racially diverse photos. Children at all age levels displayed some Asian bias; however, this bias was lowest in 10- to 11- year-olds. Same-race bias was also reduced in 8 to 9 year olds by labeling the Asian photos as an ethnicity other than Chinese. This labeling effect emerged and was strongest at the s…
How much does a shared name make things similar? Part 1. Linguistic labels and the development of similarity judgment
Most theoretical proposals considering effects of language on similarity assume that labels affect similarity in a qualitative all-or-nothing manner. This article proposes another theoretical alternative--a model of the label as a discrete attribute of an object. According to this model, the relative weight of labels decreases with the child's age. Predictions derived from the model were tested in 3 experiments. In these experiments, children age…
How much does a shared name make things similar? Part 1. Linguistic labels and the development of similarity judgment
Most theoretical proposals considering effects of language on similarity assume that labels affect similarity in a qualitative all-or-nothing manner. This article proposes another theoretical alternative--a model of the label as a discrete attribute of an object. According to this model, the relative weight of labels decreases with the child's age. Predictions derived from the model were tested in 3 experiments. In these experiments, children age…
The Influence of Perceptual Features, Ethnic Labels, and Sociocultural Information on the Development of Ethnic/Racial Bias in Young Children
Taiwanese children from 3 to 11 years of age were asked to identify their racial group membership and select potential playmates from arrays of racially diverse photos. Children at all age levels displayed some Asian bias; however, this bias was lowest in 10- to 11- year-olds. Same-race bias was also reduced in 8 to 9 year olds by labeling the Asian photos as an ethnicity other than Chinese. This labeling effect emerged and was strongest at the s…
Unpacking Taiwanese/Taiwanese American Culture in Children’s Picturebooks in the U.S
Unpacking children’s picturebooks about Filipino American culture
Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)