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Baumann, Anna-Elisabeth; Goldman, Elizabeth J.; Meltzer, Alexandra; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
In this paper, we investigated whether Canadian preschoolers prefer to learn from a competent robot over an incompetent human using the classic trust paradigm. An adapted Naive Biology task was also administered to assess children's perception of robots. In Study 1, 3-year-olds and 5-year-olds were presented with two informants; A social, humanoid…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Trust (Psychology), Robotics, Foreign Countries
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Knudsen, Birgit; Liszkowski, Ulf – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Warning others is a paradigm case of communicative helping and prospective action understanding. The current study addressed the ontogeny of warning in infants' gestural communication. We found that 12- and 18-month-olds ("n" = 84) spontaneously warned an adult by pointing out to her an aversive object hidden in her way…
Descriptors: Infants, Control Groups, Adults, Nonverbal Communication