Who to trust? Preschoolers and their decisions
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Trust in others' competence and capacity to do promised and expected actions is critical and serves important purposes in children's development. Children's trust in unfamiliar others for social support and promise keeping (social trust; Markson & Luo, 2020) has been little understood, and recent work has focused on children's trust in others' epistemic states (epistemic trust; Corriveau et al., 2013; Koenig et al., 2004). The present study examined how preschoolers make trust decisions as a function of the type of trust (social or epistemic) and the intergroup factor of race. In two experiments, children's social trust of same- and different-race agents were measured. Although children did not differ in their wait times in a marshmallow task for a same- or differentrace agent (Experiment 1), children were more likely to choose a same- over a differentrace agent to provide assistance, with marginal significance (Experiment 2). Children, however, did not consider race in their epistemic trust judgments in a learning task (Experiment 3). The implications of these results to the early development of race-based choices are discussed.
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