Causal understanding is a defining characteristic of human cognition. Like many animals,
human children learn to control their bodily movements and act effectively in the …

Abstract Two preregistered experiments (N= 218) investigated children's developing ability
to respond reasonably to disagreement. US children aged 4–9, and adults (50% female …

Can the experience of disagreement lead young children to reason in more sophisticated
ways? Across two preregistered studies, four‐to six‐year‐old US children (N= 136, 50 …

Abstract This study investigated 3‐to 5‐year‐olds'(N= 64, 37 girls, 62.5% White, data
collected between 2021‐2022) ability to use probabilistic information gleaned through active …

Chinese and American children aged 5–11 years (total N= 144) heard two child informants
make conflicting empirical claims about each of 4 scenarios. For example, one informant …

The impartial enforcement of norms and laws is a hallmark of fair societies, yet partial,
unequal norm enforcement is common, for example as a result of corruption. While children …

Individuals revise their beliefs based on the evidential strength of others' claims. Unlike
English, in languages such as Turkish evidential marking is obligatory; speakers must …

What does it mean to reason well? One might argue that good reasoning means that the
outcome of the reasoning process is correct: reaching the right belief. Alternatively, good …

The present study examined the performance on five phases of critical thinking in gifted and
nongifted children in two settings: ethical and neutral. Ninety-one children, 32 gifted (8–10 …

This study aimed to test a new integrated explanatory theory for overimitation–the dual
process account–by engaging children in imitative learning contexts that encompassed both …