Children's ability to query others is remarkable because it attests to their coordination of a
range of complex cognitive capacities and because it allows them to initiate and redirect …

Highlights•Explanation-seeking curiosity (ESC) motivates the pursuit of explanations.•ESC is
highly selective: it is not triggered merely by ignorance or uncertainty.•Children can acquire …

Why do some (and only some) observations prompt people to ask “why?” We propose a
functional approach to “Explanation-Seeking Curiosity”(ESC): the state that motivates …

This special issue was motivated by the recent, wide-ranging interest in the development of
children's selective social learning. Human beings have a far-reaching dependence on …

Comprehensive and practical, the text is organised into short accessible chapters, making it
the ideal text for undergraduate psychology students needing to get to grips with statistics in …

Children can selectively attend to various attributes of a model, such as past accuracy or
physical strength, to guide their social learning. There is a debate regarding whether a …

Children rely on others' explanations to learn scientific concepts, yet sometimes the
explanations they receive are incomplete. Three studies explore how receiving incomplete …

Evidentiality in language marks how information contained in a sentence was acquired. For
instance, Turkish has two past-tense morphemes that mark whether access to information …

To successfully navigate the world, we cannot simply accept everything we hear as true. We
must think critically about others' testimony, believing only sources who are well-informed …

Testimony provides children with a rich source of knowledge about the world and the people
in it. However, testimony is not guaranteed to be veridical, and speakers vary greatly in both …