From an early age, children need to gather information to learn about their environment.
Deciding which knowledge to pursue can be difficult because information can serve several …

Active social communication is an effective way for infants to learn about the world. Do pre‐
verbal and pre‐pointing infants seek epistemic information from their social partners when …

Vast amounts of personalized information are now available to individuals. A vital research
challenge is to establish how people decide what information they wish to obtain. Here, over …

Organisms need to constantly balance the competing demands of gathering information and
using previously acquired information to obtain rewarding outcomes (ie, the “exploration …

One way to learn about the world is by asking questions. We investigate how younger
children (7-to 8-year-olds), older children (9-to 11-year-olds), and young adults (17-to 18 …

Children are active learners: they learn not only from the information people offer and the
evidence they happen to observe, but by actively seeking information. However, children's …

Early in development, the process of exploration helps children gather new information that
fosters learning about the world. Yet, it is unclear how childhood experiences may influence …

When deciding whether to explore, agents must consider both their need for information and
its cost. Do children recognize that exploration reflects a trade‐off between action costs and …

When facing the unknown, humans tend to consult others for guidance. This propensity to
treat others as information sources has wide‐ranging implications, being in part responsible …

How do changes in learners' knowledge influence information seeking? We showed
preschoolers (N= 100) uncertain outcomes for events and let them choose which event to …