Prior work has shown that young children trust single accurate and inaccurate individuals to
a similar extent in their endorsement of novel information. However, it remains unknown to …

The present research investigated the nature of the inferences and decisions young children
make about informants with a prior history of inaccuracies. Across three experiments, 3‐and …

Recent findings show that preschool children are selective with respect to whom they ask for
information and whose claims they endorse. In particular, they monitor an informant's record …

Recent findings imply that children rationally appraise potential informants; they weigh an
informant's past accuracy more heavily than other informant-based cues such as accent …

Past research demonstrates that children learn from a previously accurate speaker rather
than from a previously inaccurate one. This study shows that children do not necessarily …

To determine whether children retain a preference for a previously accurate informant only
in the short term or for long‐term use, 3‐and 4‐year‐old children were tested in two …

As children and adults interact with new individuals, they make and revise inferences about
these individuals' traits and intentions; they build and refine psychological profiles. Here, we …

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 …

Children aged 4–7 years (N= 120) played four rounds of a find‐the‐sticker game. For each
round, an informant looked into two cups and made a claim about which cup held a sticker …

The extent to which young children monitor and use the truth of assertions to gauge the
reliability of subsequent testimony was examined. Three-and 4-year-old children were …