Humans acquire much of their knowledge from the testimony of other people. An
understanding of the way that information can be conveyed via gesture and vocalization is …

Imitation and innovation work in tandem to support cultural learning in children and facilitate
our capacity for cumulative culture. Here we propose an integrated theoretical account of …

We adults could scarcely find our way in the world, either literally or metaphorically, if no one
told us anything. Imagine planning a journey to a distant city you've never visited before …

Diverse lines of theoretical and empirical research are converging on the notion that human
evolution has been substantially influenced by the interaction of our cultural and genetic …

Both adults and adolescents often conform their behavior and opinions to peer groups, even
when they themselves know better. The current study investigated this phenomenon in 24 …

Across two experiments, preschool‐aged children demonstrated selective learning of non‐
linguistic information from native‐accented rather than foreign‐accented speakers. In …

Children may be biased toward accepting information as true, but the fact remains that
children are exposed to misinformation from many sources, and mastering the intricacies of …

Reasoning about the evolution of our species' capacity for cumulative cultural learning has
led culture–gene coevolutionary (CGC) theorists to predict that humans should possess …

The short ontogenetic time courses of conformity and stereoty**, both evident in the
preschool years, point to the possibility that a central component of human social cognition …

Young children readily act on information from adults, setting aside their own prior
convictions and even continuing to trust informants who make claims that are manifestly …