Cognitive development yields positive outcomes like fairness and perspective-taking

Evidence

Also, social developmentalists noticed the positive outcomes, such as fairness and perspectivetaking, that come with cognitive development. This view of the child and adolescent required major changes in how psychologists understood learning and conformity. Furthermore, because Piaget’s stages are based not only on category development, but on changing self–other perspectives, they are relevant to identity concerns and intergroup contact. So, Allport’s stages of learning were transformed to age-related stages of category development, and finally to stages of self, social identity, and perspective taking. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2005

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mentalizing abilities emerge by eight months and sharpen in toddlers — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 189