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Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster
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TY - CONF
T1 - Children See Rabbit, not Peter;
T2 - Lancaster University FST Annual Christmas Conference 2019
AU - Russell, Samantha
AU - Cain, Kate
PY - 2019/12/17
Y1 - 2019/12/17
N2 - Previous research suggests that character realism influences children’s responses to stories. This study explored 3- to 7-year-old children’s ratings of thought, feeling, self-knowledge and intention for humans, real animals and anthropomorphised animal characters. Ratings were similar for real and anthropomorphised animals and significantly lower than those for humans. These findings may relate to the observed poorer outcomes following stories depicting anthropomorphic animals, relative to human characters. Individual differences in internal state attribution and corresponding responses to anthropomorphised narratives might be usefully explored with this scale.
AB - Previous research suggests that character realism influences children’s responses to stories. This study explored 3- to 7-year-old children’s ratings of thought, feeling, self-knowledge and intention for humans, real animals and anthropomorphised animal characters. Ratings were similar for real and anthropomorphised animals and significantly lower than those for humans. These findings may relate to the observed poorer outcomes following stories depicting anthropomorphic animals, relative to human characters. Individual differences in internal state attribution and corresponding responses to anthropomorphised narratives might be usefully explored with this scale.
M3 - Poster
Y2 - 17 December 2019 through 17 December 2019
ER -