Optimistic Expectations about Communication Explain Children's Diffculties in Hiding, Lying, and Mistrusting Liars

Autor/inn/en	Mascaro, Olivier; Morin, Olivier; Sperber, Dan
Titel	Optimistic Expectations about Communication Explain Children's Diffculties in Hiding, Lying, and Mistrusting Liars
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 44 (2017) 5, S.1041-1064 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Expectation; Deception; Hypothesis Testing; Age Differences; Risk; Trust (Psychology); Verbal Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Expectancy; Erwartung; Täuschung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Risiko
Abstract	We suggest that preschoolers' frequent obliviousness to the risks and opportunities of deception comes from a trusting stance supporting verbal communication. Three studies (N = 125) confirm this hypothesis. Three-year-olds can hide information from others (Study 1) and they can lie (Study 2) in simple settings. Yet when one introduces the possibility of informing others in the very same settings, three-year-olds tend to be honest (Studies 1 and 2). Similarly, four-year-olds, though capable of treating assertions as false, trust deceptive informants (Study 3). We suggest that children's reduced sensitivity to the opportunities of lying, and to the risks of being lied to might help explain their difficulties on standard false belief tasks. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01