Schwarz, Stefanie; Roebers, Claudia M. (2006). Age differences in the effects of social influence on children s eyewitness performance and their metacognitive monitoring. Journal of experimental child psychology, 94(3), pp. 229-248. Amsterdam: Elsevier 10.1016/j.jecp.2006.01.003
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)The current work investigated the effects of social influence on children's recall accuracy and metacognitive monitoring. Two studies were conducted in which 8- and 10-year-olds were confronted with postevent information in an interview situation. An interviewer (Study 1) or a confederate (Study 2) provided postevent information with two levels of assertiveness, inducing (a) a variation of conformity pressure and (b) a variation of information credibility. Afterwards, children's confidence judgments were assessed. The results revealed significant age differences in children's ability to adequately cope with variations of social influence. Although conformity pressure was especially important for the 8-year-olds, effects of informative social influence were independent of age. However, 10-year-olds were also able to act appropriately on low credibility, thereby demonstrating a more sophisticated consideration of social influence sources. Moreover, varying assertiveness also affected the quality of children's confidence judgments by improving their metacognitive differentiation skills.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Developmental Psychology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Roebers, Claudia |
ISSN: |
0022-0965 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Factscience Import |
Date Deposited: |
04 Oct 2013 14:48 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:15 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.jecp.2006.01.003 |
PubMed ID: |
16540115 |
Web of Science ID: |
000238396100003 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/20123 (FactScience: 3245) |
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