Accuracy, Confidence, and Calibration: How Young Children and Adults Assess Credibility

Autor/inn/en	Tenney, Elizabeth R.; Small, Jenna E.; Kondrad, Robyn L.; Jaswal, Vikram K.; Spellman, Barbara A.
Titel	Accuracy, Confidence, and Calibration: How Young Children and Adults Assess Credibility
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 47 (2011) 4, S.1065-1077 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0023273
Schlagwörter	Cues; Credibility; Information Dissemination; Experiments; Developmental Psychology; Children; Adults; Comparative Testing; Investigations; Memory; Child Development; Evaluation Methods; Cognitive Processes; Undergraduate Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Glaubwürdigkeit; Informationsverbreitung; Erprobung; Entwicklungspsychologie; Child; Kind; Kinder; Untersuchung; Gedächtnis; Kindesentwicklung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Do children and adults use the same cues to judge whether someone is a reliable source of information? In 4 experiments, we investigated whether children (ages 5 and 6) and adults used information regarding accuracy, confidence, and calibration (i.e., how well an informant's confidence predicts the likelihood of being correct) to judge informants' credibility. We found that both children and adults used information about confidence and accuracy to judge credibility; however, only adults used information about informants' calibration. Adults discredited informants who exhibited poor calibration, but children did not. Requiring adult participants to complete a secondary task while evaluating informants' credibility impaired their ability to make use of calibration information. Thus, children and adults may differ in how they infer credibility because of the cognitive demands of using calibration. (Contains 5 figures, 1 table and 4 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10