Siba Ghrear
Biographic Data
| ID | 6773251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siba Ghrear |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siba |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghrear |
| SIGNATURE | GHREAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2212-1535 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Only Familiar Information is a “Curse”
The ability to make inferences about what one’s peers know is critical for social interaction and communication. Three experiments (n = 309) examined the curse of knowledge, the tendency to be biased by one’s knowledge when reasoning about others’ knowledge, in children’s estimates of their peers’ knowledge. Four- to 7-year-olds were taught the answers to factual questions and estimated how many peers would know the answers. When children learned…
Cultural Variations in the Curse of Knowledge
We examined the universality of the curse of knowledge (i.e., the tendency to be biased by one’s knowledge when inferring other perspectives) by investigating it in a unique cross-cultural sample; a nomadic Nilo-Saharan pastoralist society in East Africa, the Turkana. Forty Turkana children were asked eight factual questions and asked to predict how widely-known those facts were among their peers. To test the effect of their knowledge, we taught …
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Cultural Variations in the Curse of Knowledge
We examined the universality of the curse of knowledge (i.e., the tendency to be biased by one’s knowledge when inferring other perspectives) by investigating it in a unique cross-cultural sample; a nomadic Nilo-Saharan pastoralist society in East Africa, the Turkana. Forty Turkana children were asked eight factual questions and asked to predict how widely-known those facts were among their peers. To test the effect of their knowledge, we taught …
Only Familiar Information is a “Curse”
The ability to make inferences about what one’s peers know is critical for social interaction and communication. Three experiments (n = 309) examined the curse of knowledge, the tendency to be biased by one’s knowledge when reasoning about others’ knowledge, in children’s estimates of their peers’ knowledge. Four- to 7-year-olds were taught the answers to factual questions and estimated how many peers would know the answers. When children learned…
Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works) · Curse (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Cognition (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works) · Cultural bias (1 works)