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Direct linkKoenig, Melissa A. – Child Development, 2012
Children's sensitivity to the quality of epistemic reasons and their selective trust in the more reasonable of 2 informants was investigated in 2 experiments. Three-, 4-, and 5-year-old children (N = 90) were presented with speakers who stated different kinds of evidence for what they believed. Experiment 1 showed that children of all age groups…
Descriptors: Evidence, Semantics, Preschool Children, Child Development
