Marsh, LE;
Ropar, D;
Hamilton, AFDC;
(2019)
Are you watching me? The role of audience and object novelty in overimitation.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
, 180
pp. 123-130.
10.1016/j.jecp.2018.12.010.
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Abstract
This study tested whether overimitation is subject to an audience effect, and whether it is modulated by object novelty. A sample of 86 4- to 11-year-old children watched a demonstrator open novel and familiar boxes using sequences of necessary and unnecessary actions. The experimenter then observed the children, turned away, or left the room while the children opened the box. Children copied unnecessary actions more when the experimenter watched or when she left, but they copied less when she turned away. This parallels infant studies suggesting that turning away is interpreted as a signal of disengagement. Children displayed increased overimitation and reduced efficiency discrimination when opening novel boxes compared with familiar boxes. These data provide important evidence that object novelty is a critical component of overimitation.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Are you watching me? The role of audience and object novelty in overimitation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.12.010 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.12.010 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Psychology, Developmental, Psychology, Experimental, Psychology, Overimitation, Audience effect, Causal reasoning, Social signalling, Ostracism, Object Novelty, YOUNG-CHILDREN, OVER-IMITATION, TOOL USE, OSTRACISM, FIDELITY, NORMATIVITY, TASK |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10070671 |
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