Preschoolers mistrust ignorant and inaccurate speakers.

By Melissa Koenig, Paul L. Harris. Child Development, 2005

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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To Trust or not to Trust? Children’s Social Epistemology (2010, background): “Support for a conventional bias could be found in the fact that 3-year-olds are perfectly capable of discriminating between two sources when one is appropriate and the other ignorant (Koenig and Harris 2005a).”
Understanding and Promoting Thinking About Knowledge (2016, background): “…claims about the name of an unfamiliar object, 3- and 4-year-olds have been found to display selective trust based on the accuracy of those sources in naming a familiar object in the past (Corriveau & Harris, 2009; Jaswal & Neely, 2006; Koenig, Clément, & Harris, 2004; Koenig & Harris, 2005).”
The double-edged sword of pedagogy: Instruction limits spontaneous exploration and discovery. (2011, background): “…from helpful, informative others (through testimony or “direct instruction”; Vygotsky, 1978; Csibra & Gergeley, 2009; Gergely, Kiraly, & Egyed, 2007; Koenig & Harris, 2005; Kushnir, Wellman, & Gelman, 2008; Tomasello & Barton, 1994), and that, especially in the early years, children learn chiefly…”
Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: children's imitation is affected by model age over model knowledge state (2012, positive): “…of a model's expertise (Azmitia, 1988; Birch, Vauthier, & Bloom, 2008, Birch, Akmal, & Frampton, 2010; Moore, Bryant, & Furrow, 1989), knowledge (Koenig & Harris, 2005; Sabbagh & Baldwin, 2001; Wellman et al., 2001), and intention to teach (Ziv et al., 2008) and infer a model's knowledge state…”
Learning From Others (2012, positive): “Indeed, Shafto et al. (2012) proposed a model of this problem and brought it to bear on research on the development of epistemic trust (Corriveau, Fusaro, & Harris, 2009; Corriveau & Harris, 2009; Koenig & Harris, 2005; Pasquini, Corriveau, Koenig, & Harris, 2007).”
Learning from others: children's construction of concepts. (2009, background): “Koenig & Harris (2005) review a developmental sequence, starting at about 16–18 months, when infants first show evidence of distinguishing between true and false statements and rejecting false claims, and gradually displaying more sophisticated selective mistrust of others, with developmental…”