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Direct linkWoolley, Jacqueline D.; Van Reet, Jennifer – Child Development, 2006
Three studies examined the effects of context on decisions about the reality status of novel entities. In Experiment 1 (144, 3- to 5-year-olds), participants less often claimed that novel entities were real when they were introduced in a fantastical than in a scientific context. Experiment 2 (61, 4- to 5-year-olds) revealed that defining novel…
Descriptors: Cues, Inferences, Decision Making, Familiarity
