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| Title |
Controlling the message: preschoolers’ use of information to teach and deceive others
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00867 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marjorie Rhodes, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto, Annie Chen, Leyla Caglar |
| Abstract |
Effective communication entails the strategic presentation of information; good communicators present representative information to their listeners-information that is both consistent with the concept being communicated and also unlikely to support another concept a listener might consider. The present study examined whether preschool-age children effectively select information to manipulate others' semantic knowledge, by testing how children choose information to teach or deceive their listeners. Results indicate that preschoolers indeed effectively select information to meet some specific communicative goals. When asked to teach others, children selected information that effectively spanned the concept of interest and avoided overly restrictive or overly general information; when asked to deceive others, they selected information consistent with the intended deceptive messages under some circumstances. Thus, preschool children possess remarkable abilities to select the best information to manipulate what others believe. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 4 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 88% |
| Scientists | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 41 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 5% |
| Unknown | 39 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 32% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 12% |
| Researcher | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 7% |
| Professor | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 7 | 17% |
| Unknown | 5 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 23 | 56% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 10% |
| Linguistics | 3 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 5% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 5% |
| Unknown | 6 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 97. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 October 2017.
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