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The Development of the 3-to 5-year-olds’ Strategies When Making Trust Judgment Based on Trustee’s Competence

LI Qing-gong1, XU Fen2, ZHOU Xiao-mei1   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004;
    2. School of Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018
  • Online:2012-03-15 Published:2012-03-15

Abstract: The current study investigated the strategies that 3-to 5-year-olds used to make trust judgment based on trustee's competence,by interviewing them with a story.A total of 144 children aged 3-5 years were asked to make trust judgment when facing two different kinds of kids in the story,one was competent and the another was not choosy in food.Before making judgment,a teacher would give her evaluation to the two kids,which occurred on two conditions:condition 1,teacher's evaluation was in favor of competent kid and the teacher thought the competent kid performed better than the not-choosy-food one.Condition 2 went opposite:teacher's evaluation was in favor of the not-choosy-food kid.The results showed that 3-to 4-year-olds were affected by teacher's evaluation when making trust judgment,while 5-year-olds weren't.These results suggested that 5-year-olds made trust judgment based on trustee's competence by trait understanding,while 3-to 4-year-olds made trust judgment by trait valence.

Key words: trust, competence, trait understanding, strategy using, preschool children

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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