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Lane, Jonathan D.; Wellman, Henry M.; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 2013
This study examined how informants' traits affect how children seek information, trust testimony, and make inferences about informants' knowledge. Eighty-one 3- to 6-year-olds and 26 adults completed tasks where they requested and endorsed information provided by one of two informants with conflicting traits (e.g., honesty vs. dishonesty).…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Access to Information, Inferences, Trust (Psychology)