Humans acquire much of their knowledge from the testimony of other people. An
understanding of the way that information can be conveyed via gesture and vocalization is …

After seeing an action sequence children and adults tend to copy causally relevant and,
more strikingly, even perceivably unnecessary actions in relation to the given goal. This …

In the past few decades, scholars from several disciplines have pursued the curious parallel
noted by Darwin between the genetic evolution of species and the cultural evolution of …

Imitation is a deeply social process. Here, I review evidence that children use imitation as a
means by which to affiliate with others. For example, children imitate the actions of others …

Children must sometimes decide between conforming to peer behavior and doing what is
right. While research shows that children have a strong inclination to act prosocially and to …

Cross-cultural comparisons provide critical insight into variation in reasoning about
intelligence. In two studies, the authors used a novel methodology based on multivocal …

The impact of social group information on the learning and socializing preferences of Hong
Kong Chinese children were examined. Specifically, the degree to which variability in racial …

We report on a study in which 4‐to 6‐year‐olds were presented with a sticker‐retrieval task
and asked to choose between one of two tools they could use to complete it. One of the tools …

This study examined whether instrumental and normative learning contexts differentially
influence 4-to 7-year-old children's social learning strategies; specifically, their dispositions …

The current study tested whether preschoolers' moral and social-conventional judgments
change under social pressure using Asch's conformity paradigm. A sample of 132 …