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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 92, Issue 4, Pages E635-E652Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13544
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- German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
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The study found that 2-3 year old children are more likely to rely on information provided by adults, and this preference is more pronounced in the younger age group. Children tend to take into account the age of the interlocutor when judging the communicated information.
Two- and 3-year-old children (N = 96) were tested in an object-choice task with video presentations of peer and adult partners. An immersive, semi-interactive procedure enabled both the close matching of adult and peer conditions and the combination of participants' choice behavior with looking time measures. Children were more likely to use information provided by adults. As the effect was more pronounced in the younger age-group, the observed bias may fade during toddlerhood. As there were no differences in children's propensity to follow peer and adult gestures with their gaze, these findings provide some of the earliest evidence to date that young children take an interlocutor's age into account when judging ostensively communicated testimony.
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