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Köymen, Bahar; Engelmann, Jan M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
People rely on reputational information communicated via gossip when deciding about with whom to cooperate, whom to believe, and whom to trust. In two studies, we investigated whether 5- and 7-year-old children trust in gossip when determining a course of action. In Study 1, 5- and 7-year-old German-speaking peer dyads (N = 64 dyads, 32 female…
Descriptors: Young Children, Abstract Reasoning, Participative Decision Making, Trust (Psychology)
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Lindsey, Beth A.; Stetzer, MacKenzie R.; Speirs, J. Caleb; Ferm, William N., Jr.; van Hulten, Alexander – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
In this paper, we seek to evaluate the extent to which students can follow a deductive reasoning chain when it is presented to them. A great deal of instruction in introductory physics courses is centered on presenting students with a logical argument that starts from first principles and systematically leads to a particular conclusion. This…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation