Children's use of generic you to make meaning

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Ariana Orvell, University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Ethan Kross, University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Susan Gelman, University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

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Orvell, Ariana, Kross, Ethan, and Gelman, Susan. Children’s use of generic you to make meaning. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-02-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E101400V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary This study examined whether children are able to make meaning from negative experiences through their use of generic-you, a linguistic device in which people shift from the here-and-now to refer to people in general.  (e.g. "You win some, you lose some"). Participants (N=89, ages 4-10) listened to two stories depicting common conflicts and were asked to discuss what lessons the character could learn (Lessons Learned condition) and how the character felt (Relive condition). Of interest was children's usage of generic-you. 



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