The role of physical contact and association in early contamination sensitivity.

Ken Springer · Amy Belk

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Child and Animal Learning Development Science Education and Pedagogy Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

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Although young children believe that contaminated substances contain imperceptible substrates, they may assume that the mere presence of a contaminant guarantes the presence of its substrates in a physically removed substance (associational contamination). In this study, the proximity of a contaminant (bug) to a beverage (juice) was systematically manipulated, and children were asked whether someone would get sick from drinking the beverage. Some preschoolers, and most 7- and 8-years-olds, recognized the need for physical contact between the bug and juice to make the juice noxious

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