Preschool children weigh accuracy against partisanship when seeking information.
Information seeking
Ingroup bias
Intergroup cognition
Minimal groups
Misinformation
Social cognitive development
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:
08 2022
08 2022
Historique:
received:
17
08
2021
revised:
02
03
2022
accepted:
03
03
2022
pubmed:
4
4
2022
medline:
12
5
2022
entrez:
3
4
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The current work asked how preschool-age children (N = 200) weigh accuracy against partisanship when seeking information. When choosing between a story that favored the ingroup but came from an unreliable source and a story that favored the outgroup but came from a reliable source, children were split between the two; although they tracked both reliability and bias, they were conflicted about which one to prioritize. Furthermore, children changed their opinions of the groups after hearing the story they had chosen; children who heard an unreliable ingroup-favoring story ended up more biased against the outgroup even while recognizing that the story's author was not a trustworthy source of information. Implications for the study of susceptibility to misinformation are discussed.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35367658
pii: S0022-0965(22)00052-2
doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105423
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
105423Informations de copyright
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