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Gourdon, Amelie and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) A comparison of children and adults' judgements and decisions based on verbal uncertainty statements. In: Taatgen, N. , van Rijn, H. , Schomaker , L. and Nerbonne , J., (eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, U.S.A. : Cognitive Science Society. pp. 1121-1126. ISBN 9780976831853

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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.

Item Type:	Book Section
Event Title:	CogSci 2009
Research Area:	Psychology
Faculty, School or Research Centre:	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Social Science (until November 2012) Faculty of Business and Law Faculty of Business and Law > Kingston Business School (Leadership, HRM and Organisation)
Depositing User:	Gaelle Villejoubert
Date Deposited:	10 Sep 2009 08:16
Last Modified:	12 Apr 2013 10:39
URI:	http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/6309

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