Por favor, use este identificador para citar o enlazar este documento: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/177764
Título: Does It Look Good or Evil? Children's Recognition of Moral Identities in Illustrations of Characters in Stories
Autor: Obiols Suari, Núria
Marco Pallarés, Josep
Materia: Infants
Aspectes morals
Contes infantils i juvenils
Children
Moral aspects
Children's and young adult stories
Fecha de publicación: 23-abr-2021
Publicado por: Frontiers Media
Resumen: Children usually use the external and physical features of characters in movies or stories as a means of categorizing them quickly as being either good or bad/evil. This categorization is probably done by means of heuristics and previous experience. However, the study of this fast processing is difficult in children. In this paper, we propose a new experimental paradigm to determine how these decisions are made. We used illustrations of characters in folk tales, whose visual representations contained features that were compatible or incompatible with the moral identity of the characters. Sixteen children between 8 and 10 years old participated in the experiment. We measured their electrodermal activity when they were listening to the story and looking at pictures of the characters. Results revealed a higher increase in skin conductance when the illustrations showed a moral condition that was incompatible with the actions of a character than when they showed one that was compatible. These results suggest that children make fast decisions about the moral identity of characters based on their physical features. They open up new possibilities in the study of the processing of moral decisions in children.
Nota: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.552387
Es parte de: Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, vol. 12, num. 552387
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/177764
Recurso relacionado: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.552387
ISSN: 1664-1078
Aparece en las colecciones:Articles publicats en revistes (Institut de Neurociències (UBNeuro))
Articles publicats en revistes (Teoria i Història de l'Educació)
Articles publicats en revistes (Institut d'lnvestigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL))

Archivos de este documento:
Archivo Descripción DimensionesFormato 
712217.pdf729.97 kBAdobe PDFMostrar/Abrir


Este documento está sujeto a una Licencia Creative Commons Creative Commons