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The Roles of Intuition and Informants' Expertise in Children's Epistemic Trust.
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- When children can explain why they believe a claim, they suggest a better empirical test for that claim.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Epistemic trust: a comprehensive review of empirical insights and implications for developmental psychopathology.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2023Article
- I'm not a little kid anymore! Reciprocal social influence in child-adult interaction.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations Among Children's Interpersonal Trust, Reputation for Trustworthiness, and Relationship Closeness.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Children's Informant Judgments and Recall of Valenced Facts at a Science Center.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Counterintuitive Pseudoscience Propagates by Exploiting the Mind's Communication Evaluation Mechanisms.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Obstacles to the spread of unintuitive beliefs.Evolutionary human sciences · 2019Article
- The Influence of First-Hand Testimony and Hearsay on Children's Belief in the Improbable.Child development · 2018Article
- What we have changed our minds about: Part 2. Borderline personality disorder, epistemic trust and the developmental significance of social communication.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2017Review
- Children's imagination and belief: Prone to flights of fancy or grounded in reality?Cognition · 2016Article
- Interactions Between Knowledge and Testimony in Children's Reality-Status Judgments.Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society · 2016Article
- Measuring Laypeople's Trust in Experts in a Digital Age: The Muenster Epistemic Trustworthiness Inventory (METI).PloS one · 2015Article
- Confronting, Representing, and Believing Counterintuitive Concepts: Navigating the Natural and the Supernatural.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2014Article
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Abstract
This study examined how children's intuitions and informants' expertise influence children's trust in informants' claims. Three- to 8-year-olds (N = 192) watched videos in which experts (animal/biology experts or artifact/physics experts) made either intuitively plausible or counterintuitive claims about obscure animals or artifacts. Claims fell either within or beyond experts' domains of expertise. Children of all ages were more trusting of claims made by informants with relevant, as opposed to irrelevant, expertise. Children also showed greater acceptance of intuitive rather than counterintuitive claims, a differentiation that increased with age as they developed firmer intuitions about what can ordinarily happen. In summary, children's trust in testimony depends on whether informants have the relevant expertise as well as on children's own developing intuitions.
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