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She made it with her friend: How social object history influences children's thinking about the value of digital
Keiana Price1, Jasmine M DeJesus1, Shaylene E Nancekivell2
1University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
Abstract:
Two studies examine how social object histories from collaborative experiences influenced North American children (N = 160, 5-10 years) thinking about the value of digital objects (48% male/51% female; 51% White/24% Black/11% Asian). With forced-choice judgments, Study 1 found (moderate-large effects) that children viewed digital and physical objects with social histories as more special than objects without such histories. On a 10-point scale, Study 2 found (large effects) that children rated digital objects with positive social histories as more special than objects with negative ones. Overall, the studies found that children's tendencies to use object history to understand object value extends into digital contexts. They also reveal how an unexplored kind of history-social history-affects judgments.
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