Children have a reputation for credulity that is undeserved; even preschoolers have proven
adept at identifying implausible claims and unreliable informants. Still, the strategies …

As children increasingly interact with digital voice assistants, it is important to know whether
they treat these devices as reliable information sources. Two studies investigated children's …

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 …

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 …

Learning new information from others, called social learning, is one of the most fundamental
types of learning from infancy. Developmental studies show that infants likely engage in …

An examination of children's causal reasoning capacities and how those capacities serve as
the foundation of their scientific thinking. Young children have remarkable capacities for …

The mechanisms which guide selective learning in young children have been a source of
debate. Two experiments were conducted to identify which cognitive processes are involved …

The digital era is currently making changes to educational institutions. The role of learning
media in word repetition in children aged 4–5 years is very important. Mechatronics media …

Within the growing developmental literature on children's testimonial learning, the emphasis
placed on children's evaluations of testimonial evidence has shielded from view some of the …

How do people learn about things that they have never perceived or inferred–like
molecules, miracles or Marie‐Antoinette? For many thinkers, trust is the answer. Humans …