Marc Aguert est enseignant-chercheur au LPCN. Il s’intéresse à l’étude du développement de la cognition sociale de la période pré-linguistique à l’adolescence, à la manière dont certains indices paralinguistiques (prosodie, expressions faciales) concourent à se représenter les intentions communicatives d’autrui.
Il vient de publier un nouvel article :
Aguert, M. (2022). How children tell a (prosocial) lie from an (ironic) joke: The role of shared knowledge. Social Development, 00, 1–14. DOI: 0.1111/sode.12659
Celui-ci a été accepté par la revue Social Development (SCIMAGO-SCOPUS Q1, SJR 2021 0.96, IF 2.492, H-index 97)..
Il est accessible en ligne à partir de ce lien : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sode.12659
Abstract:
Understanding counterfactual utterances is a major challenge for children, because of the many ways in which they can be interpreted (pretence, errors, figures of speech, lies). In the present study, 7-year-olds and adults determined whether counterfactual utterances were prosocial lies or irony, depending on whether the counterfactuality was known only to the speaker (unshared knowledge) or to both interlocutors (shared knowledge). When the counterfactuality was shared by the interlocutors, both the 7-year-olds and the adults were less likely to interpret the speaker’s counterfactual utterance as an attempted lie, and more likely to conclude that the speaker was being ironic. Adults were better than children at distinguishing irony from lies, but both age groups exhibited the same response pattern, namely a bias toward lying. This bias did not prevent the adults from deciding that the speaker was being ironic when the counterfactuality was shared, whereas children responded at chance level. In children, the association between task performance and theory-of-mind skills was nonsignificant, with a very small effect size. We discuss the possibility that, contrary to widespread belief, distinguishing irony from lies does not necessarily involve theory of mind (ToM).
