Opaque windows in puppet studies: A response to Lillard (2022), Rakoczy (2022), Wellman &amp; Yu (2022), and Yu &amp; Wellman (2022)

Packer, Martin J.; Moreno-Dulcey, Fernando A.

doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101287

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“…We did so to replicate a validated approach [33,35] and to reduce the asymmetry between child and adult experimenter [55]. While this is a common approach in developmental research, there is an evident gap in the scientific validation of such approaches regarding how children treat puppet co-players [56]. This particularly applies to the implementation of puppetry in cross-cultural developmental research, even though previous research has used various forms of puppets accordingly (e.g.…”

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Priming third-party social exclusion does not elicit children's inclusion of out-group members

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This study investigates how culture and priming 3- to 7-year-old children ( N = 186) with third-party social exclusion affects their subsequent inclusion of out-group members. Children in societies that tend to value social independence (Germany, New Zealand) and interdependence (Northern Cyprus) were randomly assigned to minimal groups. Next, they watched video stimuli depicting third-party social exclusion (exclusion condition) or neutral content (control condition). We assessed children's recognition of the social exclusion expressed in the priming videos and their understanding of the emotional consequences thereof. We furthermore assessed children's inclusion behaviour in a ball-tossing game in which participants could include an out-group agent into an in-group interplay. Children across societies detected third-party social exclusion and ascribed lower mood to excluded than non-excluded protagonists. Children from Germany and New Zealand were more likely to include the out-group agent into the in-group interaction than children from Northern Cyprus. Children's social inclusion remained unaffected by their exposure to third-party social exclusion primes. These results suggest that children from diverse societies recognize social exclusion and correctly forecast its negative emotional consequences, but raise doubt on the notion that social exclusion exposure affects subsequent social inclusion.

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