Children's Natural Conversations Following Exposure to a Rumor: Linkages to Later False Reports

Autor/inn/en	Principe, Gabrielle F.; Cherson, Mollie; DiPuppo, Julie; Schindewolf, Erica
Titel	Children's Natural Conversations Following Exposure to a Rumor: Linkages to Later False Reports
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113 (2012) 3, S.383-400 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2012.06.006
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Interpersonal Communication; Recall (Psychology); Age Differences; Deception; Adults; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Abberufung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Täuschung
Abstract	Previous research has shown that children naturally propagate overheard false rumors and that the circulation of such information can induce children and their peers to wrongly recall actually experiencing rumored-but-nonexperienced events. The current study extends this work by recording 3- to 6-year-olds' naturally occurring conversations following exposure to an erroneous rumor. Results indicate that, compared with children who overhear rumors spread by adults, those who pick up rumors from peers during natural interactions engage in deeper and more inventive rumor mongering. Moreover, the degree and originality of rumor propagation was linked with various qualities of children's subsequent recollections at both 1-week and 4-week delayed interviews. Furthermore, compared with 3- and 4-year-olds, 5- and 6-year-olds naturally transmitted more novel and coherent embellishments of the rumor to their peers, and more of their false narrative reports during the interviews overlapped with their own and their peers' utterances transmitted soon after the rumor was planted. (Contains 8 tables.) (As Provided).
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