One way children are remarkable learners is that they learn from others. Critically, children
are selective when assessing from whom to learn, particularly in the domain of word …

Little is known about how children perceive, trust and learn from social robots compared to
humans. The goal of this study was to compare a robot and a human agent in a selective …

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 …

What is distinctive about a bringing a learning perspective to moral psychology? Part of the
answer lies in the remarkable transformations that have taken place in learning theory over …

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 …

How impressionable are in‐group biases in early childhood? Previous research shows that
young children display robust preferences for members of their own social group, but also …

For adults, loyalty to the group is highly valued, yet little is known about how children
evaluate loyalty. We investigated children's attitudes about loyalty in a third-party context. In …

In three experiments, we investigate how 187 3-to 5-year-olds weigh competence and
benevolence when deciding whom to trust. Children were presented with two informants …

While very popular in public discourse about education, critical thinking education is still a
work in progress. Two key conditions for successfully addressing critical thinking education …

Any form of overt communication, be it gestural or linguistic, involves pragmatic skills. This
article investigates the social–cognitive foundations of pragmatic development from infancy …