Interactions with peers are fundamental to socio‐cognitive development, but assessing peer
interactions in standardized experiments is challenging. Therefore, researchers commonly …

In order to examine young children, developmental science has relied extensively on
puppets, dolls, and animated stimuli. While some scholars regarded this as a royal road to …

We report two experiments on children's tendency to enhance their reputations through
communicative acts. In the experiments, 4-year-olds (N= 120) had the opportunity to inform a …

We care about what others think of us and often try to present ourselves in a good light. What
cognitive capacities underlie our ability to think (or even worry) about reputation, and how do …

The use of animations and puppet shows in developmental research has recently been
questioned on external validity grounds. Do infants and children interpret symbolic stimuli …

Although the presence of early helping behavior has been firmly established, it is unclear to
what extent children are willing to adopt costs to help others, as well as how this willingness …

This study investigates how people make moral judgments about humans and robots,
aiming to understand the reasons behind these moral choices. Using eye tracking …

Humans have an intuitive sense of what others know and how they learned it. These
expectations are often latent, but violating them can elicit surprise and curiosity (eg, a …

The use of animations and puppet shows in developmental research has recently been
questioned on external validity grounds. Do infants and children interpret symbolic stimuli …

Throughout evolution, human cooperation has not only depended on individuals conforming
to majority behaviors but has also relied on unique contributions from individuals. Extensive …