| Presentation | 2015-01-30 Does Cognitive Disfluency help Preschoolers' False Belief Understanding? Kensuke SATO, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Preschoolers often make realism errors in mindreading tasks such as false belief tasks. However, the cognitive mechanisms involved in these errors are still unclear. The purpose of the present study is to examine whether if it is possible to explain preschoolers' errors in mindreading by anchoring and adjustment heuristic, which is the mechanism that explains adults' cognitive biases observed in many kinds of reasoning tasks. An experiment is planned to investigate the effect of cognitive disfluency, which is known to promote more systematic thinking-on the 3-4-year-olds' performance of false belief tasks. The results showed that cognitive disfluency reduced errors in preschoolers' false belief reasoning. This suggests that biased mindreading in children partly stem from same cognitive mechanisms-anchoring and adjustment. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Preschoolers / Theory of Mind / Disfluency / Anchoring and Adjustment / Cognitive Bias |
| Paper # | HCS2014-80 |
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| Conference Date | 2015/1/23(1days) |
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| Title (in English) | Does Cognitive Disfluency help Preschoolers' False Belief Understanding? |
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| Keyword(1) | Preschoolers |
| Keyword(2) | Theory of Mind |
| Keyword(3) | Disfluency |
| Keyword(4) | Anchoring and Adjustment |
| Keyword(5) | Cognitive Bias |
| 1st Author's Name | Kensuke SATO |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University() |
| Date | 2015-01-30 |
| Paper # | HCS2014-80 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.114 |
| Number (no) | 440 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 5 |
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