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Previous research has shown that 5- to 6-year-olds, perhaps not younger children, can use the duration of eye gaze to understand others’ preferences(Einav & Hood, 2006; Montgomery, Bach, & Moran, 1998). However, the experimental situation used in the previous research might not have been ambiguous in terms of the ultimate goals of the actor's actions. Thus children might have had difficulty linking an actor's gazing behaviors and future action preferences. Therefore, we made a change in our experiment and aimed to further examine the nature of Korean preschoolers’ ability to use eye gaze duration when understanding others’ preferences. Four-year-old Korean children participated in study 1 and 3.5-year-olds in study 2. Both of the experiments demonstrated that 3.5-year-old and older Korean children can consider other people’s looking behavior, especially eye-gaze duration, as a cue to others’ preferences. Possible cultural and contextual factors are discussed to account for the discrepancy between our and previous findings.
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