Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 146, Issue -, Pages 223-230Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.02.002
Keywords
Testimony selection; Trust; Gender; Visual access; Social cognition; Preschoolers
Funding
- French National Research Agency (ANR) [ANR-12-CULT-0002]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PZ00P1_142388/1]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PZ00P1_142388] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Several studies have investigated how preschoolers weigh social cues against epistemic cues when taking testimony into account. For instance, one study showed that 4- and 5-year-olds preferred to endorse the testimony of an informant who had the same gender as the children; by contrast, when the gender cue conflicted with an epistemic cue-past reliability-the latter trumped the former. None of the previous studies, however, has shown that 3-year-olds can prioritize an epistemic cue over a social cue. In Experiment 1, we offer the first demonstration that 3-year-olds favor testimony from a same-gender informant in the absence of other cues. In Experiments 2 and 3, an epistemic cue-visual access-was introduced. In those experiments, 3- and 4-year-olds endorsed the testimony of the informant with visual access regardless of whether it was a same-gender informant (Experiment 3) or a different-gender informant (Experiment 2). These results demonstrate that 3-year-olds are able to give more weight to an epistemic cue than to a social cue when evaluating testimony. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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