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 …

Critical thinking includes the component skills of analyzing arguments, making inferences
using inductive or deductive reasoning, judging or evaluating, and making decisions or …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

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 …

Developmental psychologists coined the term" theory of mind" to describe how we
understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past twenty years researchers …

We adults could scarcely find our way in the world, either literally or metaphorically, if no one
told us anything. Imagine planning a journey to a distant city you've never visited before …

Diverse lines of theoretical and empirical research are converging on the notion that human
evolution has been substantially influenced by the interaction of our cultural and genetic …

Across two experiments, preschool‐aged children demonstrated selective learning of non‐
linguistic information from native‐accented rather than foreign‐accented speakers. In …

Preschoolers' questions may play an important role in cognitive development. When
children encounter a problem with their current knowledge state (a gap in their knowledge …

Children may be biased toward accepting information as true, but the fact remains that
children are exposed to misinformation from many sources, and mastering the intricacies of …