ArticleOpen mind : discoveries in cognitive science2025
The Quest for Truth: Experimenter Identity Impacts Children's Response to Surprising Information.
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Much of what children know about the world is learned from information provided by others, and children's endorsement of this information depends on the social attributes of the person providing the information (e.g., their accent, attractiveness, etc.). Previous work on how the identity of a person providing information (i.e., informant) influences children's learning has tended to focus on a highly specific, simplified learning context, where children are provided with conflicting claims from two individuals (e.g., one foreign- and one locally accented speaker) and are immediately asked to indicate whose information they endorse more. In the current study, we investigated the effect of informant identity on 5- to 7-year-old children's (
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