Psychological Development and Education ›› 2009, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (3): 9-14.

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Development of Preschool Children’s Selective Trust Based on Judgments of Information——Its Continuity and Its Relationship with Interpersonal Trust

ZHANG Lan-ping, ZHOU Hui   

  1. Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhong, China 510275
  • Online:2009-07-15 Published:2009-07-15

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Abstract: The current study examined whether preschool children could distinguish reliable/unreliable informants on the basis of the accuracy of their objects naming.Children joined in a game in which there were two informants.One of the informants labeled familiar things always rightly while the other always wrongly.After three trials of informants'objects labeling, children were asked to predict informants'following behavior according to their previous accuracy. Sixty children aged 2 to 4 participated the present study.Results indicated that:a)young children tended to trust accurate informant and formed selective trust since they were 3 year-old, and their selective trust became stable when they were 4 year 2old;b)Preschool children's selective trust tended to be stable across time and places;c)Selective trust based on judgments of accuracy of information could be transferred to interpersonal trust.

Key words: selective trust, trust, social cognition, preschool children

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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