Previous research has shown that linguistic cues such as mental and modal verbs can
influence young children's judgments about the reliability of informants. Further, certain …

Children's ability to exercise selective trust is crucial for the development of their knowledge
and successful socialization. For speakers of some languages, evidentials, which are …

Research on preschoolers' selective learning has mostly been conducted in English-
speaking countries. We compared the performance of Turkish preschoolers (who are …

The study examined the relation between children's trust beliefs and Theory of Mind (ToM)
abilities. A sample of 168 Italian children (M= 9 years–6 months, SD= 7 months) were …

Evidentials are grammatical source-of-knowledge markers. In Bulgarian they provide
information about authorship–whether the speaker has personally acquired the information …

The present study was the first to investigate the ability to selectively trust reliable informants
in a sample of Brazilian preschool children from two different socioeconomic backgrounds …

Not all learnings come from direct observation or personal experience, sometimes people
have to learn knowledge from second-handed materials. Given information could be from …

A growing body of research has examined the role of individual differences in children's
selective trust. The current study was designed to explore how individual differences in …

The purpose of the study is to examine young children's (4-to 8-year-old) selective trust
decisions in two different data sets; one was for interpersonal trust decision and the other …

Over the last 15 years, researchers have been increasingly interested in understanding the
nature and development of children's selective trust. Three meta‐analyses were conducted …