APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Identifying a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Children’s Trust Judgments Based on an Informant’s Past Behavior and Current Emotion
- Yulong Tang
Beijing Normal University - Paul Harris
Harvard University - Hong Zou
Beijing Normal University - Qunxia Xu
Beijing Normal University
Abstract
Two experiments were conducted to investigate how informant’s current emotion state affect children’s trust judgment. Results indicated that preschooler more likely to trust the informant who expressed more positive emotion.Informant’s current emotion state significant affected children’s existing trust judgments based on informant's past behavior.
Social Cognition
