Humans acquire much of their knowledge from the testimony of other people. An
understanding of the way that information can be conveyed via gesture and vocalization is …

Social learning is often portrayed as a passive process of copying and trusting others. This
view, however, does not fully capture what makes human social learning so powerful: social …

Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

Young children develop causal knowledge through everyday family conversations and
activities. Children's museums are an informative setting for studying the social context of …

Children's ability to query others is remarkable because it attests to their coordination of a
range of complex cognitive capacities and because it allows them to initiate and redirect …

Direct instruction facilitates learning without the costs of exploration, yet teachers must be
selective because not everything can nor needs to be taught. How do we decide what to …

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 …

Research on the capacity to understand others' minds has tended to focus on
representations of beliefs, which are widely taken to be among the most central and basic …

Human culture relies on extensive use of social transmission, which must be integrated with
independently acquired (ie asocial) information for effective decision‐making. Formal …

The study of children's social learning is a topic of central importance to our understanding
of human development. Learning from others allows children to acquire information …