{"pk":26032,"title":"Culture, causal attributions, and development: A comparison of Chinese and U.S.\n4-and 6-year-olds","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This is a cross-cultural replication of Seiver, Gopnik & Goodman (2013) and compares the development of social\ncausal attributions in Chinese and U.S. children. In this study, Chinese (n=110) 4-and 6-year-olds were directly compared to the\nU.S. children in Seiver, Gopnik & Goodman (2013). Children were shown covariation evidence that varied across conditions\nto imply that a person, situation, or neither was the cause of a person’s actions. Following observation, children were asked\nto explain why the person engaged in the actions. Findings indicate that U.S. children significantly increased the amount of\nperson attributions they made with age, while Chinese 4-and 6-year-olds answered comparably. Children from both cultures\nwere sensitive to covariation manipulations when they suggested a person was the cause of an action. Only U.S. children were\nsensitive to evidence when it favored the situation.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50c2x88v","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Adrienne","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wente","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Sophie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bridgers","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Xin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zhao","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cornell University","department":""},{"first_name":"Yixin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cui","name_suffix":"","institution":"Columbia University","department":""},{"first_name":"Elizabeth","middle_name":"","last_name":"Seiver","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Li","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zhanxing","name_suffix":"","institution":"Chinese Academy of Science","department":""},{"first_name":"Liqi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zhu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Chinese Academy of Science","department":""},{"first_name":"Alison","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gopnik","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T12:00:00-06:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26032/galley/15656/download/"}]}