Knowing Right and Wrong: Intersections Between Sociomoral and Epistemic Reasoning

Session Type: Flash Talk Session

Abstract

Presenters in this flash talk session will discuss children's developing social and moral judgments based on what people know, how they came to know it, and what they tell to others. Paper 1 examined children's moral and loyalty judgments about secret telling, finding that 6-9, but not 4-5, year old children recognized that telling someone's secret can be the right thing to do even if it's not the loyal thing to do. Paper 2 explored the gap between children's knowledge of and behavioral adherence to prosocial lying norms (i.e., telling white lies), finding that 4-7 year old children were more likely to endorse telling white lies than they were to tell a white lie themself. Paper 3 investigated children's understanding of epistemic injustice (i.e., biases to denounce, discredit, or otherwise minimize someone's knowledge or contribution based on their group membership), finding that 4-10 year old children understood and rejected clear examples of epistemic injustice. And Paper 4 tested children's preferences for those who use different forms of reasoning, finding that children initially valued what someone believes, but, with development, came to increasingly value how beliefs are formed.

Sub Unit

• Social Cognition

Individual Presentations

• Good person, but bad friend: Children's beliefs about secret disclosure - Presenting Author: Katherine Vasquez, University of Chicago; Alex Shaw, University of Chicago

• Sparing Whose Feelings: Comparing Young Children’s White Lies in Puppet-, Human-, and Vignette-Based Contexts - Presenting Author: Callie De La Cerda, University of Texas at Dallas; Jennifer Marie Clegg, Texas State University; Katherine Rice Warnell, Texas State University

• Is Testimony a “Double-Edged Sword”? Investigating the developmental origins of epistemic injustice in childhood - Presenting Author: Erika DeAngelis, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Pearl Han Li, Duke Univeristy; Melissa A. Koenig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• From Outcome to Process: A Developmental Shift in Judgments of Good Reasoning - Presenting Author: Hanna Schleihauf, Utrecht University; Zhen Zhang, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Alissa Gomez; Jan Engelmann, University of California - Berkeley

Moderator

• Melissa A. Koenig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities