Four experiments examined Canadian 2- to 3-year-old children’s (N = 224; 104 girls, 120 boys) thoughts about shared preferences. Children saw sets of items, and identified theirs and another person’s preferences. Children expected that food preferences would be more likely to be shared than color preferences, regardless of whether the items were similar or different in appeal (Experiments 1–3). A final study replicated these findings while also exploring children’s expectations about activity and animal preferences. Across all studies, children expected shared preferences at surprisingly low rates (never higher than chance). Overall, these findings suggest that young children understand that some preferences are more subjective than others, and that these expectations are driven by beliefs about domains of preferences.

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幼儿和学龄前儿童明白有些偏好比其他偏好更主观

四项实验检查了加拿大 2 至 3 岁儿童 ( N = 224; 104 个女孩，120 个男孩）关于共同偏好的想法。孩子们看到了成套的物品，并确定了他们和另一个人的偏好。儿童期望食物偏好比颜色偏好更有可能被分享，无论这些物品的吸引力是相似还是不同（实验 1-3）。最后一项研究复制了这些发现，同时还探索了儿童对活动和动物偏好的期望。在所有研究中，儿童期望以惊人的低比率（永远不会高于偶然）共享偏好。总体而言，这些研究结果表明，幼儿理解某些偏好比其他偏好更主观，并且这些期望是由对偏好领域的信念驱动的。