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 …

Reasoning about the evolution of our species' capacity for cumulative cultural learning has
led culture–gene coevolutionary (CGC) theorists to predict that humans should possess …

In a longitudinal study of attachment, children (N= 147) aged 50 and 61 months heard their
mother and a stranger make conflicting claims. In 2 tasks, the available perceptual cues …

Testimony provides children with a rich source of knowledge about the world and the people
in it. However, testimony is not guaranteed to be veridical, and speakers vary greatly in both …

Preschool‐age children's reasoning about the reliability of deceptive sources was
investigated. Ninety 3‐to 5‐year‐olds watched several trials in which an informant gave …

How do children resolve conflicts between a self-generated belief and what they are told?
Four studies investigated the circumstances under which toddlers would trust testimony that …

Under most circumstances, children (and adults) can safely assume that the testimony they
hear is true. In two studies, we investigated whether 3-year-olds (N= 100) would continue to …

An examination of the cognitive foundations of intuitions about the existence and attributes
of God. Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of …

Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of
disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the …

We present three studies exploring 2-to 4-year-olds' imitation on witnessing a model whose
questionable tool use choices suggested her untrustworthiness. In Study 1, children …