A comparison of children and adults' judgements and decisions based on verbal uncertainty statements

Amélie Gourdon; Gaelle Villejoubert

A comparison of children and adults' judgements and decisions based on verbal uncertainty statements

Amélie Gourdon
, Gaelle Villejoubert

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Abstract

Children distinguish less well than adolescents the numerical meaning conveyed by verbal probabilities (e.g., Mullet & Rivet, 1991). Little is known, however, about children's ability to grasp the directionality of verbal probabilities (Teigen & Brun, 1995). We expected children to only be influenced by directionality and congruence of statement framing with their goal. Thirty children and 29 adults made probability judgements and decisions in a treasure hunt context. Results revealed that children are sensitive to the numerical meaning of verbal probabilities in decisions, and also in probability judgements related to goal-incongruent statement framings. The different demands implied by judging probabilities and decision-making will be discussed, as well as the independence of directionality and numerical value in adults' interpretation of verbal probabilities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Editors	N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, L. Schomaker, J. Nerbonne
Place of Publication	Austin, U.S.A.
Publisher	Cognitive Science Society
Pages	1121-1126
ISBN (Print)	9780976831853
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Note: Published in Taatgen, N. & van Rijn, H. (eds.) (2009) Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin: Cognitive Science Society, pp.1121-1126. Available at: http://www-abc.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/CogSci09/

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A comparison of children and adults' judgements and decisions based on verbal uncertainty statements
Gourdon, A. & Villejoubert, G., 31 Jul 2009.
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Gourdon, A., & Villejoubert, G. (2009). A comparison of children and adults' judgements and decisions based on verbal uncertainty statements. In N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, L. Schomaker, & J. Nerbonne (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1121-1126). Cognitive Science Society. http://141.14.165.6/CogSci09/papers/655/paper655.pdf

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A comparison of children and adults' judgements and decisions based on verbal uncertainty statements. / Gourdon, Amélie; Villejoubert, Gaelle.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. ed. / N. Taatgen; H. van Rijn; L. Schomaker; J. Nerbonne. Austin, U.S.A.: Cognitive Science Society, 2009. p. 1121-1126.

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