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The ontogenesis of trust
Auteur(s)
Koenig, Melissa
Harris, Paul
Date de parution
2004
In
Mind & Language
Vol.
4
No
19
De la page
360
A la page
379
Résumé
Psychologists have emphasized children's acquisition of information through first-hand observation. However, many beliefs are acquired from others' testimony. In two experiments, most 4-year-olds displayed skeptical trust in testimony. Having heard informants' accurate or inaccurate testimony, they anticipated that informants would continue to display such differential accuracy and they trusted the hitherto reliable informant. Yet they ignored the testimony of the reliable informant if it conflicted with what they themselves had seen. By contrast, three-year-olds were less selective in trusting a reliable informant. Thus, young children check testimony against their own experience and increasingly recognize that some informants are more trustworthy than others. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract)
Type de publication
Resource Types::text::journal::journal article
