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https://bcccd.slack.com/archives/C02PQ4WFMC2Özdeş Çetin, R. Pınar Karan, Gaye SoleyBoğaziçi University, İstanbul, TurkeyChildren consider moral norms as universal and unchangeable, while social norms as context-dependent and specific to certain groups (Josephs & Rakoczy, 2016; Schmidt, Rakoczy, & Tomasello, 2012). This study explores whether children’s intuitions about how they have acquired these norms also differ. We tested 41 5-year-olds (Range = 5.06 to 6.17 years, SD = .25) and 41 8-year-olds (Range = 8.04 to 8.98 years, SD = .25). Children were presented with a moral or social norm and asked whether they were familiar with it. If they were familiar with the norm, they were asked whether they learned the norm on their own or from another person. Finally, children were asked to elaborate on the source with open-ended questions (e.g., how they learned about the norm, who the source was, etc.). These answers were then coded into several source categories. A mixed ANOVA with Norm Type and Age on the ratio of choosing self as the source revealed a significant interaction between Norm Type and Age (F (1, 77) = 5.22, p = .03 5-year-olds reported to have learned social norms by themselves (M = .56, SD = .39), more than 8-year-olds did (M = .34, SD = .32). Further planned analyses revealed distinct distributions in terms of the frequency of the sources reported for different norm types (χ² (42, N = 82) = 65.47, p = .012). The details of these distributions and their implications will be discussed.
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