It is widely believed that the demands of living in large, complexly bonded social groups
played a key role in the evolution of human cognition. This review focuses on a critical but …

Even in our highly interconnected modern world, geographic factors play an important role
in human social connections. Similarly, social relationships influence how and where we …

Several studies have investigated factors guiding children's decisions when learning from
others, although less is known about factors that govern children's decisions when they …

Compassion has been theorized as a desirable prosocial emotion due to its potential to
transcend arbitrary boundaries (eg, race, physical distance) and motivate us to alleviate the …

Abstract Children in the United States (N= 488, 4–11 years, 239 females, 248 males, one
other, 53% White; data collected 2021–2022) participated in three studies investigating their …

Introduction In two experiments, we examine the degree to which adults (Experiment 1) and
children 5-to-8-years-old (Experiment 2) use diversity to infer a group's cooperative and …

Some outcomes are brought about by intentional agents with access to information and
others are not. Children use a variety of cues to infer the causes of outcomes, such as …

Although the ability to consider others' visual perspectives to interpret ambiguous
communication emerges during childhood, people sometimes fail to attend to their partner's …

Surprisingly little is known about how informational relevance guides children's informing
decisions. Although prior studies have demonstrated that children selectively inform and …

Adults often respond negatively toward children with incarcerated parents. Yet, the
developmental foundations for such negativity remain unclear. Two studies (N= 331 US …