Children Expect Others to Prefer Handmade Items

Autor/inn/en	DeJesus, Jasmine M.; Gelman, Susan A.; Lumeng, Julie C.
Titel	Children Expect Others to Prefer Handmade Items
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 58 (2022) 8, S.1441-1454 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (DeJesus, Jasmine M.) ORCID (Gelman, Susan A.) ORCID (Lumeng, Julie C.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001370
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Preadolescents; Museums; Value Judgment; Parents; Food; Food Service; Handicrafts; Preferences; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Cognitive Development; Social Cognition; Visual Aids; Expectation; Social Emotional Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Werturteil; Eltern; Lebensmittel; Handwerk; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Kognitive Entwicklung; Soziale Kognition; Anschauungsmaterial; Expectancy; Erwartung
Abstract	Although children frequently engage in creative activities (in which they make foods and objects by hand), the development and scope of children's thinking about handmade items is largely unexplored. In the present studies, we examined whether 4- to 12-year-old children at a local children's museum (54% girls, 46% boys; 51% White, 11% Asian/Asian American, 10% more than 1 group, 4% Latinx, 3% Black/African American, 18% did not report race/ethnicity) would expect other people to prefer handmade over factory-made items, including foods and nonfoods. In Experiments 1 (n = 124) and 2 (n = 122), participants expected a child character to prefer items the character made themselves and items made by the character's parent or a local person. However, this expectation did not persist at all costs: When considering imperfect handmade items in Experiment 3 (n = 122), children demonstrated a handmade preference when considering "nonfoods" made by a parent but demonstrated a factory-made preference when considering "foods" made by a parent. Children's explanations were associated with their choices: When children's explanations referred to emotions or relationships, they were more likely to select handmade items. When children referred to item features, they were more likely to select factory-made items. Across studies, we observed persistent age and gender effects: Children's handmade preference increased with child age and girls demonstrated a more robust handmade preference than boys. These findings highlight children's developing and nuanced reasoning about object value. At an early age, children consider who made an object as a contributor to its value. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01