The Development of Distrust

• Autores: Kimberly E. Vanderbilt, David Liu, Gail D. Heyman
• Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 82, Nº. 5, 2011, págs. 1372-1380
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Preschool-age children’s reasoning about the reliability of deceptive sources was investigated. Ninety 3- to 5-year-olds watched several trials in which an informant gave advice about the location of a hidden sticker. Informants were either helpers who were happy to give correct advice, or trickers who were happy to give incorrect advice. Three-year-olds tended to accept all advice from both helpers and trickers. Four-year-olds were more skeptical but showed no preference for advice from helpers over trickers, even though they differentiated between helpers and trickers on metacognitive measures. Five-year-olds systematically preferred advice from helpers. Selective trust was associated with children’s ability to make mental state inferences.