The Boss Is Not Always Right: Norwegian Preschoolers Do Not Selectively Endorse the Testimony of a Novel Dominant Agent

Autor/inn/en	Fonn, Erik Kjos; Zahl, Joakim Haugane; Thomsen, Lotte
Titel	The Boss Is Not Always Right: Norwegian Preschoolers Do Not Selectively Endorse the Testimony of a Novel Dominant Agent
Quelle	In: Child Development, 93 (2022) 3, S.831-844 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fonn, Erik Kjos)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13722
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Trust (Psychology); Meta Analysis; Personality Traits; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Meta-analysis; Metaanalyse; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Norwegen
Abstract	Theories of cultural evolution posit that cues of competence-based prestige, rather than formidability-based dominance, should guide culturally transmitted learning, but recent work suggested that French and Kaqchikel Guatamalan preschoolers place their epistemic trust in dominant others. In contrast, this study shows that 249 three- to six-year-olds (116 girls, tested between 2016 and 2018 across metropolitan locations with varying ethnic composition and socioeconomic status) randomly endorsed the word-labels of dominant and subordinate agents in the egalitarian culture of Norway, using stimuli which solicit dominance inferences among infants and manipulating anonymity across studies to control for egalitarian desirability bias. A meta-analysis estimated that 48% endorsed the dominant's testimony. This demonstrates that the tendency to endorse the epistemic claims of dominant individuals does not emerge reliably in early childhood. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01