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Toddlers prefer adults as informants : 2‐ and 3‐year‐olds’ use of and attention to pointing gestures from peer and adult partners
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Kachel, Gregor, Moore, Richard, Hepach, Robert and Tomasello, Michael (2021) Toddlers prefer adults as informants : 2‐ and 3‐year‐olds’ use of and attention to pointing gestures from peer and adult partners. Child Development, 92 (4). e635-e652. doi:10.1111/cdev.13544
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13544
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Toddlers , Toddlers -- Development , Toddlers -- Intelligence testing , Pointing (Gesture) , Nonverbal communication in children , Cognition in children | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Child Development | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1467-8624 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 9 August 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 92 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | e635-e652 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/cdev.13544 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Kachel, G., Moore, R., Hepach, R. and Tomasello, M. (2021), Toddlers Prefer Adults as Informants: 2- and 3-Year-Olds’ Use of and Attention to Pointing Gestures From Peer and Adult Partners. Child Dev, 92: e635-e652. which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13544. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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