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- This study explores how 3-year-old children learn and trust information from a competent robot compared to an incompetent human, focusing on their responses to different informants.
- During the experiment, children observed the robot successfully pointing to a toy, while the human pointed to an empty box, establishing the robot's competency.
- Results showed that children were more likely to ask the robot for help and recognized it as accurate, but they equally accepted pointers from both informants, highlighting their ability to differentiate based on knowledge rather than social cues.
Article Abstract
How young children learn from different informants has been widely studied. However, most studies investigate how children learn verbally conveyed information. Furthermore, most studies investigate how children learn from humans. This study sought to investigate how 3-year-old children learn from, and come to trust, a competent robot versus an incompetent human when competency is established using a pointing paradigm. During an induction phase, a robot informant pointed at a toy inside a transparent box, whereas a human pointed at an empty box. During the test phase, both agents pointed at opaque boxes. We found that young children asked the robot for help to locate a hidden toy more than the human (ask questions) and correctly identified the robot to be accurate (judgment questions). However, children equally endorsed the locations pointed at by both the robot and the human (endorse questions). This suggests that 3-year-olds are sensitive to the epistemic characteristics of the informant even when its displayed social properties are minimal.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105783 | DOI Listing |
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