Abstract
Social relationships such as playmates and friendships are important for children's development. But relatively little is known about how such relationships are formed. In two studies, 5- to 6-year-old children chose their playmates in a hypothetical scenario that resembled a real-world social situation. The findings suggested that children used both the base-rate information about the social group and the adaptive sampling strategy in playmate choice - they approached or avoided individuals based on the group that the individuals belonged to, as well as their past experiences with the individuals.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 2103-2109 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| State | Published - 2020 |
| Event | 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 29 Jul 2020 → 1 Aug 2020 |
Conference
| Conference | 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020 |
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| City | Virtual, Online |
| Period | 29/07/20 → 1/08/20 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020 The Author(s)
Keywords
- adaptive sampling
- friendship
- playmate
- statistical learning