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 …

Children's causal learning has been characterized as a rational process, in which children
appropriately evaluate evidence from their observations and actions in light of their existing …

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 …

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

Testimony is a valuable source of information for young learners, in particular if children
maintain vigilance against errors while still being open to learning from imperfectly …

Children's evaluations of moral and epistemic agents crucially depend on their discerning
that an agent's actions were performed intentionally. Here we argue that children's epistemic …

Young children are thought to be motivated to avoid individuals who have been wrong in the
past so as to minimize the risk of being misinformed. Yet they sometimes act on testimony …

Children can selectively attend to various attributes of a model, such as past accuracy or
physical strength, to guide their social learning. There is a debate regarding whether a …

The view that questions are'requests for missing information'is too simple when language
use is considered. Formally, utterances are questions when they are syntactically marked as …

Within the animal kingdom, human cooperation represents an outlier. As such, there has
been great interest across a number of fields in identifying the factors that support the …