Young Children Can Infer Information Preferences from Goals and Recommend Appropriate Sources to Others

Autor/inn/en	Chuey, Aaron; Lockhart, Kristi; Trouche, Emmanuel; Keil, Frank
Titel	Young Children Can Infer Information Preferences from Goals and Recommend Appropriate Sources to Others
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 59 (2023) 8, S.1511-1518 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Chuey, Aaron)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001573
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Adults; Inferences; Preferences; Goal Orientation; Information Seeking; Recreation; Cues; Sentences; Value Judgment; Information Sources; Connecticut + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Inference; Inferenz; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Informationserschließung; Re-creation; Erholung; Stichwort; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Werturteil; Information source; Informationsquelle
Abstract	As adults, we intuitively understand how others' goals influence their information-seeking preferences. For example, you might recommend a dense book full of mechanistic details to someone trying to learn about a topic in-depth, but a more lighthearted book filled with surprising stories to someone seeking entertainment. Moreover, you might do this with confidence despite knowing few details about either book. Even though we offer or receive such recommendations frequently as adults, we know little about how the ability to evaluate and recommend information sources to others develops. Two studies examined how children (6-9 years, Eastern U.S. residents, n = 311) and adults (U.S. residents, n = 180) select mechanistic and entertaining information sources for others depending on their goals. Participants recommended books containing mechanistic information to agents who wanted to learn and entertaining information to agents who wanted to have fun. In contrast to adults who strongly favored entertaining books, children recommended both kinds of books equally to a generally curious agent. These results suggest children can infer others' information-seeking preferences based on their goals and recommend appropriate information sources to satisfy those goals despite possessing little topical knowledge themselves. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01