APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
The Emergence of Forgiveness in Preschoolers
- Janine Oostenbroek
The University of Virginia - Amrisha Vaish
University of Virginia
Abstract
Children participated in a picture-drawing task. Two adult experimenters then accidentally tore the child’s picture. One adult showed remorse for the transgression whereas the other showed no remorse. Five-, but not four-year-olds, made more positive evaluations of and were more prosocial toward the remorseful than the unremorseful adult.
Social Cognition
