2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The influence of pre-existing knowledge on young children's counterfactual thinking
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15K17269
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Educational psychology
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| Research Institution | Chiba University (2017)
Shizuoka University (2015-2016) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 幼児 / 反事実的思考 / 反実仮想 / 因果推論 / 認知発達 / 領域特殊 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Counterfactual thinking is “the ability to consider alternatives to what we know has happened.” Three studies examined the development of counterfactual thinking. The set of experiment results showed the following: a) the development of young children’s counterfactual thinking differently depending on the domain of events; b) young children’s counterfactual thinking was facilitated by the focusing other’s emotion; c) young children’s counterfactual thinking was related to gratitude understanding. These results provided new evidences on the development of young children’s counterfactual thinking.
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| Free Research Field |
発達心理学
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