According to a study, children no longer really trust adults to learn new things and confide their little secrets. Will the parents soon be replaced and by whom?
Parents’ role is to help their children grow well, to flourish, and to give them all the keys to progress in life, by teaching them new things, answering their questions and awakening their curiosity. . If they are also there to take care of them and reassure them, their attentive ear is essential to allow the little ones to confide in them. But Australian researchers, who carried out a study among 111 children aged 3 to 6 years, would tend to think that children no longer really trust adults. Are the parents about to be replaced?
According to the survey, children aged three to six years turn more towards robots than towards humans, whom they consider more reliable. After watching videos in which adults and robots named familiar objects, children were then able to determine who was or was not giving the correct answers. But when it came to unknown objects, the children (especially the youngest) questioned the robots which they judged to be more reliable than the adults, even though the latter had also given good answers in the first phase. test. According to the researchers, children perceived the robots’ mistakes as unintentional and therefore innocent, while the mistakes made by adults were immediately comparable to bad will.
But this preference does not stop at the desire to learn from others. Children would also be more inclined to confide in robots rather than adults. It is with these high-tech machines that they would prefer to tell their little secrets, become friends and they would even like to have them as teachers. These results should make it possible to better anticipate the use of new technologies, particularly in the educational field.