Young children update their trust in an informant's claim when experience tells them otherwise.
Cognitive development
Exploration
Information seeking
Testimony
Journal
Journal of experimental child psychology
ISSN: 1096-0457
Titre abrégé: J Exp Child Psychol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 2985128R
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2021
05 2021
Historique:
received:
03
03
2020
revised:
12
11
2020
accepted:
29
11
2020
pubmed:
26
1
2021
medline:
28
9
2021
entrez:
25
1
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Across two experiments, an adult informant presented 220 preschoolers (34-71 months of age) with either a correct claim or an incorrect claim about how to activate a music box by using one of two toy figures. Children were then prompted to explore the figures and to discover whether the informant's claim was correct or incorrect. Children who discovered the claim to be incorrect no longer endorsed it. Moreover, their predictions regarding a new figure's ability to activate the music box were clearly affected by the reliability of the informant's prior claim. Thus, children reassess an informant's incorrect claim about an object in light of later empirical evidence and transfer their conclusions regarding the validity of that claim to subsequent objects.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33493996
pii: S0022-0965(20)30517-8
doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105063
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
105063Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.