Children often infer that descriptive group norms (i.e., how a group is) are prescriptive (i.e., how group members should be), and this descriptive-to-prescriptive tendency, which biases children against non-conformity, declines with age. We tested whether this age-related decline diverged across different types of processing. Children (ages 4 to 13) were randomly assigned to one of two conditions in which they evaluated conforming and non-conforming individuals from novel and third-person groups. In one condition, children made fast judgments, and in the other, judgments were slow. Replicating past work, children were biased toward non-conformity, and this bias declined with age, through the rate of this decline was strongest among children who made fast judgments, suggesting that encouraging children to think slowly does not necessarily undermine their descriptive-to-prescriptive tendency.

孩子们经常推断，描述规范组（A组即如何为）是规定（即，如何组成员应），这种描述性到描述性的倾向会随着年龄的增长而降低儿童不合格的倾向。我们测试了与年龄相关的下降是否在不同类型的加工过程中有所不同。儿童（4至13岁）被随机分配到以下两种情况之一，在这种情况下，他们评估了来自新人和第三人称群体的合格和不合格个体。在一种情况下，孩子做出快速的判断，而在另一种情况下，判断很慢。复制过去的工作，孩子们倾向于不合格，这种偏见随着年龄的增长而下降，因为这种下降的速度在做出快速判断的孩子中最强，这表明鼓励孩子慢慢思考并不一定会破坏他们的描述性行为。规定性倾向。