Preschoolers&#039; ability to use gaze information when understanding others&#039; preferences (응시 단서를 이용한 학령기 전 아동의 타인의 선호 이해)

Kim Yu Jin (김유진); Hyun Joo SONG (송현주)

Preschoolers' ability to use gaze information when understanding others' preferences

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2007, 20(4), pp.81-97
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Kim Yu Jin ¹, Hyun Joo SONG ²

¹관동대학교
²연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

Previous research has shown that 5- to 6-year-olds, perhaps not younger children, can use the duration of eye gaze to understand others’ preferences(Einav & Hood, 2006; Montgomery, Bach, & Moran, 1998). However, the experimental situation used in the previous research might not have been ambiguous in terms of the ultimate goals of the actor's actions. Thus children might have had difficulty linking an actor's gazing behaviors and future action preferences. Therefore, we made a change in our experiment and aimed to further examine the nature of Korean preschoolers’ ability to use eye gaze duration when understanding others’ preferences. Four-year-old Korean children participated in study 1 and 3.5-year-olds in study 2. Both of the experiments demonstrated that 3.5-year-old and older Korean children can consider other people’s looking behavior, especially eye-gaze duration, as a cue to others’ preferences. Possible cultural and contextual factors are discussed to account for the discrepancy between our and previous findings.

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gaze duration, preference understanding, theory of mind, psychological reasoning

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