[escepticos] Conducta y creencias sobrenaturales: interesante experimento

[Jose Miguel Cuevas]

Interesantísimo reportaje, (gracias Peiré), variante del clásico de Lewin.
Nos podría ayudar mejor a conocer en diferentes edades la proporción de
niños "creyentes" y la proporción de niños "escepticos", si bien sería
interesante valorar cuestiones que modulan esta tendencia a ser creyente o
escéptico, controlar algunas variables educacionales y considerar
antecedentes familiares. Pero un muy buen camino.

2012/9/7 Eduardo Peiré <edupeire en hotmail.com>

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> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2012/09/04/imaginary-presidents-and-imaginary-gods-the-real-empty-chair-effect/
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> El experimento consiste tomar a un grupo de niños y enseñarles un juego
> qué únicamente consta de tres reglas. Una vez familizarizados con el juego,
> los niños se dividen en tres grupos, uno tutelado por un adulto colega,
> otro sin tutelar y uno tercero tutelado por el ser imaginario "ALice",
> representado por una silla vacía. AL otro lado de la habitación los padres
> observan -desapercibidos- la conducta de sus hijos. EL objeto de la prueba
> es establecer qué grupo es más tramposo..:
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> "So what did we find? Just as we expected, basically, and probably
> what you’d have as well. Those children who were randomly assigned to
> the “no supervision” condition were the most likely of the bunch to
> cheat when the experimenter exited the room. Nearly half of these kids,
> in fact, were so brazen in their transgressions that they simply walked
> right up to the wall and manually placed the ball on the target (usually
>  just shy of the bulls-eye to cleverly simulate some relative degree of
> marginal error), thereby breaking all three rules at once! Those in the
> “invisible agent” condition, by contrast, were just as well-behaved when
>  they thought Princess Alice was in the room as were those kids being
> watched by an actual, flesh and blood person sitting in the chair before
>  them and supervising their behavior.
> But there’s an important caveat, too. This rather astonishing
> Princess Alice effect only panned out statistically for those children
> who said that they believed that she was real. The more sceptical
> children in the “invisible agent” condition, by contrast, were just as
> likely to cheat when left alone as those in the “no supervision”
> condition. Yet even those who adamantly denied that Princess Alice was
> real during their initial introduction to her, when left alone in the
> room, seemed to display some curious signs of ambivalence about her. In
> fact, for those kids in the “invisible agent” condition that did cheat,
> the majority only did so after “disconfirming” her non-existence by
> running their hand across the chair. Some even “Eastwooded” her by speaking
> to her."
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José Miguel Cuevas Barranquero
Profesor Ps. Social Universidad de Málaga
Vicepresidente de AIIAP---Asociación Ibero-Americana
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