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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)
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Butler, Lucas P.; Markman, Ellen M. – Child Development, 2012
Children are judicious social learners. They may be particularly sensitive to communicative actions done pedagogically for their benefit, as such actions may mark important, generalizable information. Three experiments (N = 224) found striking differences in preschoolers' inductive generalization and exploration of a novel functional property,…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Evidence, Cues, Inferences