Psychological Development and Education ›› 2011, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (5): 468-474.

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The Use of Emotional Information and Evaluative information in Children’s Traits Inference

ZHANG Qin1,2, ZHANG Ting1, LI Hong1, WANG Yun2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Cognition & Personality(SWU), Chongqing 400715;
    2. National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2011-09-15 Published:2011-09-15

Abstract: This study examined whether 4-,5-,and 7-year-olds can infer trait labels from behaviors and predict behaviors from traits labels.Investigated children rely on which information when they pass the simple trait-inference task from two aspects.Experiment 1 demonstrates all children can pass two inference tasks,they use emotional inferences when the traits contain emotional information;Experiment 2 support the results of Experiment 1,all children can pass two inference task,and demonstrates when the traits contain both evaluative information and emotional information,young children had a tendency to rely on evaluative inferences.

Key words: emotional information, evaluative information, trait understanding, children

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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