Do children know that fantastic events in television programs are not real?

doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101020

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	Do children know that fantastic events in television programs are not real?
	Li, Yuanhua 3; Wang, Yifang 2; Chen, Xiaoyan 1; Li, Su 4,5; Zhang, Leimao 3
刊名	COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
	2021-04-01
卷号	58 页码:10
关键词	Television program Fantastic events Real events Preschoolers Positive Negative
ISSN号	0885-2014
DOI	10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101020
通讯作者	Wang, Yifang(wangyifang6275@126.com)
英文摘要	Television programs are loved by children and often contain fantastic events. Do preschoolers know that fantastic events cannot occur in daily life? This study systematically investigated whether children can accurately distinguish between real and fantastic events. In study 1, 90 3- to 5-year-old children watched 16 cartoon clips of fantastic and real events that elicited positive or negative emotions. After watching each cartoon clip, the children were asked whether they thought that the event could actually occur in real life. The results indicate that for real events, the children's distinction accuracy of positive events was higher than their accuracy of negative events. In study 2, 90 3- to 5-year-old children were shown 16 animations with liveaction segments of fantastic and real events that elicited positive or negative emotions. Again, for real events, the children's distinction accuracy of positive events was higher than their accuracy of negative events. However, in contrast to the results of study 1, the 3-year-old children scored significantly higher for negative fantastic events than positive fantastic events, while the effects of the emotional content of the events were not significant among the children aged 4 and 5 years. By comparing study 1 and study 2, we found that when only fantastic events were considered, 3-year-olds are better at identifying positive events in cartoons than in live-action animations. The opposite happens when fantasy events are considered.
收录类别	SCI
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[31371058] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[13119220010002] ; Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences[Y5CX052003]
WOS关键词	IMMEDIATE IMPACT ; DISTINCTION ; IMAGINATION ; KNOWLEDGE ; ABILITY
WOS研究方向	Psychology
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
WOS记录号	WOS:000693997600011
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/40196]
专题	心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
通讯作者	Wang, Yifang
作者单位	1.Beijing Forestry Univ, Coll Humanities & Social Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Capital Normal Univ, Coll Presch Educ, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Capital Normal Univ, Dept Psychol, Beijing Key Lab Learning & Cognit, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, CAS Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 5.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Yuanhua,Wang, Yifang,Chen, Xiaoyan,et al. Do children know that fantastic events in television programs are not real?[J]. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT,2021,58:10.
APA	Li, Yuanhua,Wang, Yifang,Chen, Xiaoyan,Li, Su,&Zhang, Leimao.(2021).Do children know that fantastic events in television programs are not real?.COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT,58,10.
MLA	Li, Yuanhua,et al."Do children know that fantastic events in television programs are not real?".COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 58(2021):10.