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Younger children are much more suggestible than older children or adults in response to suggestive questions

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q2 i? Grade of suggestibility depends on the age of the observer: younger children prove very much more suggestible than older children or adults. → Lipmann 1911

Evidence

Lipmann 1911

Lipmann, O. (1911). Pedagogical Psychology of Report. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0070700

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The author's summary of the experimental investigation of suggestibility, which he calls "a fruitful field for experimental report-research." He explains the gradient via weak memory traces and the questioner's authority. No effect sizes are printed.

"We find here a definite dependence of grade of suggestibility on the age of the observer; younger children prove to be very much more suggestible than older children or adults."

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type claim
id age-gradient-in-suggestibility
title Younger children are much more suggestible than older children or adults in response to suggestive questions
description Younger children are much more suggestible than older children or adults in response to suggestive questions
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 1911
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