Despite the vital role of curiosity-driven exploration in learning, our understanding of how to
enhance children's curiosity remains limited. Here, we tested whether hearing a strategic …

Do children consider how others learned when seeking help? Across three experiments,
German children (N= 536 3‐to‐8 year olds, 49% female, majority White, tested 2017–2019) …

High achievers vary in terms of the constraints and difficulties they encounter on the road to
success. The present study investigates whether and how children consider the constraints …

Adults have a vertical attention bias (VAB) that directs their focus toward object tops and
scene bottoms. This is consistent with focusing attention on the informative aspects and …

By collaborating with others, humans can pool their limited knowledge, skills, and resources
to achieve goals that outstrip the abilities of any one person. What cognitive capacities make …

Young children often encounter unsolvable problems with which they require others' help.
To receive adequate assistance, children must be savvy about whom they seek help from …

Learning requires effort, but children cannot try hard at everything. Here, we evaluated
whether children use their improvement over time to decide whether to stick with a …

Teaching is the primary way children learn about the world. However, successful learning
involves recognizing when teaching is ineffective, even in the absence of overt cues, and …

Humans tend to avoid cognitive effort. Whereas evidence of this abounds in adults, little is
known about its emergence and development in childhood. The few existing studies in …