An increasing number of psychological experiments with children are being conducted
using online platforms, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual replications have …

Desirable resources are crucial for incentivized tasks of prosocial behavior.
Developmentalists have often used tangible items, such as candy or stickers, as the …

Preschoolers are discerning learners, preferring to trust people who are accurate, reliable,
and appropriately-informed. Do these preferences reflect mental-state reasoning, where …

Consensus between informants is a valuable cue to a claim's epistemic value, when
informants' beliefs are developed independently of each other. Recent work (Yousif et al …

As adults, we intuitively understand how others' goals influence their information-seeking
preferences. For example, you might recommend a dense book full of mechanistic details to …

Gossip allows children to effectively identify cooperative or trustworthy partners. However,
the risk of being deceived must be faced because gossip may be false. One clue for …

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 …

Communication between social learners can make a group collectively “wiser” than any
individual, but conformist tendencies can also distort collective judgment. We asked whether …

We are able to learn from others through a combination of trust and vigilance: we trust and
believe people who are reliable and have our interests at heart; we ignore those who are …

Learners faced with competing statements that each have support from multiple sources
must decide whom to trust. Lacking firsthand knowledge, they frequently trust the majority …