Comparative and evolutionary developmental analyses seek to discover the similarities and
differences between humans and non-human species that might illuminate both the …

One way children are remarkable learners is that they learn from others. Critically, children
are selective when assessing from whom to learn, particularly in the domain of word …

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 …

Studying trust in the context of human–robot interaction is of great importance given the
increasing relevance and presence of robotic agents in the social sphere, including …

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 …

Young children are often dependent on learning from others and to this effect develop
heuristics to help distinguish reliable sources from unreliable sources. Where younger …

Originally rooted in philosophy and sociology, the concept of epistemic trust has recently
transitioned to developmental psychopathology, illuminating social-cognitive processes in …

In this paper, we investigated whether Canadian preschoolers prefer to learn from a
competent robot over an incompetent human using the classic trust paradigm. An adapted …

Recent studies have reported stability in Theory of Mind (ToM) skills from infancy to early
childhood, although others have failed to report such findings. The present longitudinal …

The everyday ability to track what others are thinking, so-called 'theory of mind', has been
the subject of hundreds of studies in typically developing ('neurotypical') children and clinical …