Turning Believers into Skeptics: 3-Year-Olds' Sensitivity to Cues to Speaker Credibility

By Vikram K. Jaswal, Lauren Malone. 2007

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Learning from others: children's construction of concepts. (2009, background): “…from where the child is looking (Baldwin 1991); when the speaker has proven to be unreliable in prior naming instances (Koenig et al. 2004) or uncertain during the naming act (Sabbagh & Baldwin 2001); or when the speaker has an unreliable naming history and is distracted ( Jaswal & Malone 2007).”
Whom do children copy? Model-based biases in social learning (2013, background): “…categorise and generalise proficiency (Koenig & Jaswal, 2011), assess context (Zmyj et al., 2011) and calibrate multiple model-based biased (Jaswal & Neely, 2006), not to mention our species’ understanding of complex language and higher-order mental state understanding (Jaswal & Malone, 2007).”
Children's imitation of causal action sequences is influenced by statistical and pedagogical evidence. (2011, background): “Children might make this ''rational actor'' assumption because they are using information about the knowledgeability (e.g. Jaswal & Malone, 2007), reliability (e.g. Koenig, Clement, & Harris, 2004; Zmyj, Buttelmann, Carpenter, & Daum, 2010) and intentional stance (e.g. Bonawitz et al., this issue)…”
Toward a Unified Science of Hierarchy: Dominance and Prestige are Two Fundamental Pathways to Human Social Rank (2014, background): “Children as young as two years old prefer to learn from models who display confidence, compared to those who appear uncertain (Birch et al. 2009; Jaswal and Malone 2007; Rakoczy et al. 2009; Sabbagh and Baldwin 2001).”
The Basis of Epistemic Trust: Reliable Testimony or Reliable Sources? (2007, background): “Three-year-olds are less likely to trust counter-intuitive 278 E P I S T E M E 07 testimony if the speaker has made a mistake and seems distracted or says, “I think this is a dog” rather than just labelling the object ostensively (e.g., “This is a dog”) (Jaswal & Malone 2007).”
To Trust or not to Trust? Children’s Social Epistemology (2010, background): “Three-year-olds were even ready to trust the informant when this latter was unreliable or distracted (Jaswal and Malone 2007).”