Preschoolers in Belarus and Turkey Accept an Adult's Counterintuitive Claim and Do Not Spontaneously Seek Evidence to Test That Claim

Autor/inn/en	Ronfard, Samuel; Ünlütabak, Burcu; Bazhydai, Marina; Nicolopoulou, Ageliki; Harris, Paul L.
Titel	Preschoolers in Belarus and Turkey Accept an Adult's Counterintuitive Claim and Do Not Spontaneously Seek Evidence to Test That Claim
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 44 (2020) 5, S.424-432 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ronfard, Samuel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Cognitive Development; Evaluative Thinking; Intuition; Age Groups; Age Differences; Toys; Replication (Evaluation); Belarus; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Kognitive Entwicklung; Age grop; Altersgruppe; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Toy; Spielzeug; Türkei
Abstract	When presented with a claim that contradicts their intuitions, do children seize opportunities to empirically verify such claims or do they simply acquiesce to what they have been told? To answer this question, we conducted a replication of Ronfard et al. (conducted in the People's Republic of China) in two countries with distinct religious and political histories (Study 1: Belarus, N = 74; Study 2: Turkey, N = 79). Preschool children were presented with five different-sized Russian dolls and asked to indicate the heaviest doll. All children selected the biggest doll. Half of the children then heard a (false) claim (i.e., that the smallest doll was the heaviest), contradicting their initial intuition. The remaining children heard a (true) claim (i.e., that the biggest doll was the heaviest), confirming their initial intuition. Belarusian and Turkish preschoolers typically endorsed the experimenter's claim no matter whether it had contradicted or confirmed their initial intuition. Next, the experimenter left the room, giving children an opportunity to check the experimenter's claim by picking up the relevant dolls. Belarusian and Turkish preschoolers rarely explored the dolls, regardless of the type of testimony they received and continued to endorse the counterintuitive testimony they received. Furthermore, in Study 2, Turkish preschoolers continued to endorse smallest = heaviest even when doing so could have cost them a large reward. In sum, across two different cultural contexts, preschool children endorsed a counterintuitive claim and did not spontaneously seek evidence to test it. These results confirm and extend those of Ronfard et al. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01