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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| author | Gweon, Hyowon Pelton, Hannah L. Konopka, Jaclyn A. Schulz, Laura E |
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| description | 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, children (6- and 7-year-olds) rate an informant lower if the toy also had non-demonstrated functions. Experiment 2 shows that given identical demonstrations, six-year-olds explore a toy more broadly if the informant previously committed a sin of omission. These results suggest that children consider both accuracy and informativeness in evaluating others’ credibility and adjust their exploratory behavior to compensate for under-informative testimony when an informant’s credibility is in doubt. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1131992022-09-29T20:17:01Z Sins of omission: Children selectively explore when teachers are under-informative Gweon, Hyowon Pelton, Hannah L. Konopka, Jaclyn A. Schulz, Laura E Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Schulz, Laura, E. Gweon, Hyowon Pelton, Hannah L. Konopka, Jaclyn A. Schulz, Laura E 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, children (6- and 7-year-olds) rate an informant lower if the toy also had non-demonstrated functions. Experiment 2 shows that given identical demonstrations, six-year-olds explore a toy more broadly if the informant previously committed a sin of omission. These results suggest that children consider both accuracy and informativeness in evaluating others’ credibility and adjust their exploratory behavior to compensate for under-informative testimony when an informant’s credibility is in doubt. 2018-01-16T16:03:18Z 2018-01-16T16:03:18Z 2014-05 2014-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0010-0277 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113199 Gweon, Hyowon et al. “Sins of Omission: Children Selectively Explore When Teachers Are Under-Informative.” Cognition 132, 3 (September 2014): 335–341 © 2014 Elsevier B.V. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.04.013 Cognition Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier Prof. Schulz |
| spellingShingle | Gweon, Hyowon Pelton, Hannah L. Konopka, Jaclyn A. Schulz, Laura E Sins of omission: Children selectively explore when teachers are under-informative |
| title | Sins of omission: Children selectively explore when teachers are under-informative |
| title_full | Sins of omission: Children selectively explore when teachers are under-informative |
| title_fullStr | Sins of omission: Children selectively explore when teachers are under-informative |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sins of omission: Children selectively explore when teachers are under-informative |
| title_short | Sins of omission: Children selectively explore when teachers are under-informative |
| title_sort | sins of omission children selectively explore when teachers are under informative |
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