Fact or Fiction? Children’s Preferences for Real Versus Make-Believe Stories

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dc.contributor.authorJennifer L. Barnes
dc.contributor.authorEmily Bernstein
dc.contributor.authorPaul Bloom
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-14T19:53:09Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-30T15:36:33Z
dc.date.available2016-01-14T19:53:09Z
dc.date.available2016-03-30T15:36:33Z
dc.date.issued2015-03-01
dc.description.abstractSome children and adults are more drawn to the imaginary than others. Here, we examine whether developmental differences also play a role in the degree to which individuals are drawn to make-believe stories over real ones (or vice versa). Experiment 1 explored the influence of the factuality of stories—whether or not stories reflect events that had actually happened—on children’s story preferences. Experiment 2 explored the effect of magical versus realistic content on participants’ story preferences. Age differences were found for both manipulations. The results suggest that despite the surplus of imaginary activity associated with childhood, young children are not more prone to liking “un-real” stories than adults and may in fact like them less.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewnoteshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guidelinesen_US
dc.identifier.citationBarnes, J. L., Bernstein, E., & Bloom, P. (2015). Fact or Fiction? Children’s Preferences for Real Versus Make-Believe Stories. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 34(3), 243-258. doi: 10.1177/0276236614568632en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0276236614568632en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/25093
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherImagination, Cognition and Personality
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 United States
dc.rights.requestablefalseen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
dc.subjectfictionen_US
dc.subjectimaginationen_US
dc.subjectfantasyen_US
dc.subjectreadingen_US
dc.subjectstoriesen_US
dc.titleFact or Fiction? Children’s Preferences for Real Versus Make-Believe Storiesen_US
dc.typeResearch Articleen_US

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