Belief in Magic Predicts Children's Selective Trust in Informants

Autor/inn/en	Kim, Sunae; Harris, Paul L.
Titel	Belief in Magic Predicts Children's Selective Trust in Informants
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 15 (2014) 2, S.181-196 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2012.751917
Schlagwörter	Beliefs; Fantasy; Trust (Psychology); Comparative Analysis; Prediction; Attitude Change; Imagination; Toddlers; Young Children; Scores; Statistical Analysis; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belief; Glaube; Fantasie; Vorhersage; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Frühe Kindheit; Statistische Analyse; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Children are able to distinguish between regular events that can occur in everyday reality and magical events that are ordinarily impossible. How do children respond to a person who brings about magical as compared with ordinary outcomes? In two studies, we tested children's acceptance of informants' claims when the informants had produced either magical or ordinary outcomes. In Study 1, children's skeptical or credulous stance toward magic predicted their endorsement of the claims made by the informants. Children who were more credulous were likely to accept information from the informant who had produced magical outcomes. In Study 2, a brief manipulation was only partially effective in changing children's initial stance toward magic. Their initial stance toward magic continued to predict their acceptance of information from the informant who had produced magical outcomes. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10