Gourdon, Amélie 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

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.

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Item Type:	Book Section
Event Title:	CogSci 2009
Research Area:	Research Areas > Psychology
Faculty, School or Research Centre:	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (until 2017) > School of Social Science (until November 2012) Faculty of Business and Law (until 2017) Faculty of Business and Law (until 2017) > Kingston Business School (Leadership, HRM and Organisation) (until July 2013)
Date Deposited:	10 Sep 2009 08:16
Last Modified:	06 Oct 2020 13:33
URI:	https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/6309

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