Sins of omission: Children selectively explore when teachers are under-informative

Do children know when people tell the truth but not the whole truth? Here we show that children accurately evaluate informants who omit information and adjust their exploratory behavior to compensate for under-informative pedagogy. Experiment 1 shows that given identical demonstrations of a toy, chi...

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Main Authors: Gweon, Hyowon, Pelton, Hannah L., Konopka, Jaclyn A., Schulz, Laura E
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113199
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039