Unsafe to eat? How familiar cartoon characters affect children's learning about potentially harmful foods

被引:6
作者
Tong, Yu [1 ]
Danovitch, Judith [2 ]
Wang, Fuxing [1 ]
Williams, Allison [2 ]
Li, Hui [3 ]
机构
[1] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Psychol, Wuhan 430079, Hubei, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Louisville, Dept Psychol & Brain Sci, Louisville, KY 40292 USA
[3] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Educ, Wuhan 430079, Hubei, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Food rejection; Testimony; Selective trust; Cartoon characters; Familiarity; Theory of mind; LICENSED CHARACTERS; PREFERENCES; KNOWLEDGE; TRUST; MIND; DISTINCTION; CATEGORIES; CONCEPTION; REJECTIONS; NEOPHOBIA;
D O I
10.1016/j.appet.2021.105649
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Young children learn about the properties of foods, such as taste and healthiness, from others. By using selective trust tasks in which a familiar cartoon character and an unfamiliar informant provided different testimony about food safety, this study examined how an informant's familiarity affected 4- to 6-year-old children's selective social learning about food safety. In Experiment 1, when judging the safety of foods from the familiar cartoon character and the unfamiliar character, children across all age groups showed a preference for asking the familiar character for information. For endorse questions, 4- and 5-year-olds did not consistently accept or reject either character's statements, while 6-year-olds endorsed the unfamiliar cartoon character's statements more often than the familiar character's statements. In Experiment 2, when the unfamiliar informant was a real adult instead of a fictional cartoon character, children sought out information from the familiar character more often than from the adult, and they did not differentially endorse statements by either informant. Moreover, children who had less advanced theory of mind skills and who viewed cartoon characters as more real were more likely to ask the cartoon character. These results suggest that although children prefer to obtain information from familiar characters, they accept information about food safety from multiple kinds of sources and their social-cognitive skills play a role in their decisions.
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