Age Differences in the Effects of Social Influence on Children's Eyewitness Performance and Their Metacognitive Monitoring

Autor/inn/en	Schwarz, Stefanie; Roebers, Claudia M.
Titel	Age Differences in the Effects of Social Influence on Children's Eyewitness Performance and Their Metacognitive Monitoring
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 94 (2006) 3, S.229-248 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2006.01.003
Schlagwörter	Assertiveness; Age Differences; Social Influences; Metacognition; Recall (Psychology); Interviews; Credibility; Children; Social Behavior; Self Esteem; Self Confidence; Coping; Foreign Countries; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Sozialer Einfluss; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Abberufung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Glaubwürdigkeit; Child; Kind; Kinder; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Bewältigung; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	The current work investigated the effects of social influence on children's recall accuracy and metacognitive monitoring. Two studies were conducted in which 8-and 10-year-olds were confronted with postevent information in an interview situation. An interviewer (Study 1) or a confederate (Study 2) provided postevent information with two levels of assertiveness, inducing (a) a variation of conformity pressure and (b) a variation of information credibility. Afterwards, children's confidence judgments were assessed. The results revealed significant age differences in children's ability to adequately cope with variations of social influence. Although conformity pressure was especially important for the 8-year-olds, effects of informative social influence were independent of age. However, 10-year-olds were also able to act appropriately on low credibility, thereby demonstrating a more sophisticated consideration of social influence sources. Moreover, varying assertiveness also affected the quality of children's confidence judgments by improving their metacognitive differentiation skills. (Author).
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