The effect of disagreement on children's source memory performance
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This study investigated whether young children are sensitive to the communicative functions of source information. Three experiments with an identical design (one original study and two replications) with 3- to 4-year-old-children (N=100) assessed whether children’s source memory performance would improve in the face of disagreement and whether such an effect interacts with different types of sources (first- vs. second-hand). 4-year-olds (but not 3-year-olds) performed better in response to an open source memory question when their interlocutor had disagreed with them compared to when it had agreed with them. Children were also biased to report having been told. These results suggest that by 4 years of age children are sensitive to the communicative functions of source information.
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