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Trust and Skepticism: Children's selective learning from testimony

Trust and Skepticism: Children's selective learning from testimony

Paperback

Series: Current Issues in Developmental Psychology

Child Psychology

ISBN10: 1848721862
ISBN13: 9781848721869
Publisher: Psychology Pr
Published: Apr 10 2014
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Children learn a great deal from other people, including history, science and religion, as well as language itself. Although our informants are usually well-intentioned, they can be wrong, and sometimes people deceive deliberately.  As soon as children can learn from what others tell them, they need to be able to evaluate the likely truth of such testimony. This book is the first of its kind to provide an overview of the field of testimony research, summarizing and discussing the latest findings into how children make such evaluations - when do they trust what people tell them, and when are they skeptical?

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