Children's Developing Ability to Adjust Their Beliefs Reasonably in Light of Disagreement

Autor/inn/en	Langenhoff, Antonia F.; Engelmann, Jan M.; Srinivasan, Mahesh
Titel	Children's Developing Ability to Adjust Their Beliefs Reasonably in Light of Disagreement
Quelle	In: Child Development, 94 (2023) 1, S.44-59 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Langenhoff, Antonia F.) ORCID (Engelmann, Jan M.) ORCID (Srinivasan, Mahesh)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13838
Schlagwörter	Children; Beliefs; Adults; Females; Attitude Change; Child Development; Persuasive Discourse; Evidence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Belief; Glaube; Weibliches Geschlecht; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Kindesentwicklung; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Evidenz
Abstract	Two preregistered experiments (N = 218) investigated children's developing ability to respond reasonably to disagreement. U.S. children aged 4-9, and adults (50% female, mostly white) formed an initial belief, and were confronted with the belief of a disagreeing other, whose evidence was weaker, stronger than, or equal to participants' evidence. With age, participants were increasingly likely to maintain their initial belief when their own evidence was stronger, adopt the other's belief when their evidence was weaker, and suspend judgment when both had equally strong evidence. Interestingly, 4- to 6-year-olds only suspended judgment reliably when this was assessed via the search for additional information (Experiment 2). Together, our experiments suggest that the ability to respond reasonably to disagreement develops over the preschool years. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01