Leipzig University.
Duke University and Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Child Dev. 2021 Jul;92(4):e635-e652. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13544. Epub 2021 Jan 28.
Two- and 3-year-old children (N = 96) were tested in an object-choice task with video presentations of peer and adult partners. An immersive, semi-interactive procedure enabled both the close matching of adult and peer conditions and the combination of participants' choice behavior with looking time measures. Children were more likely to use information provided by adults. As the effect was more pronounced in the younger age-group, the observed bias may fade during toddlerhood. As there were no differences in children's propensity to follow peer and adult gestures with their gaze, these findings provide some of the earliest evidence to date that young children take an interlocutor's age into account when judging ostensively communicated testimony.
在一项使用视频呈现同伴和成人伙伴的物体选择任务中，对 2 岁和 3 岁的儿童（N=96）进行了测试。沉浸式半互动程序使成人和同伴条件的紧密匹配以及参与者的选择行为与观察时间测量相结合成为可能。儿童更倾向于使用成人提供的信息。由于这种影响在年龄较小的年龄组中更为明显，因此观察到的偏差可能会在幼儿期逐渐消失。由于儿童在注视同伴和成人手势时跟随的倾向没有差异，这些发现提供了迄今为止最早的证据之一，表明幼儿在判断表象传达的证言时会考虑到对话者的年龄。
