testimony

Possible measures to mitigate climate change require global collective actions whose impacts will be felt by many, if not all… Expand

Although preschoolers appear sensitive to the risk of misinformation and demonstrate selective learning in certain experimental… Expand

This research examined whether preschool-aged children show less trust in physically disabled or obese informants. In Study 1… Expand

The current study investigated the efficacy of inoculation as a trial strategy designed to counter mock jurors' perceptions that… Expand

Hume's essay 'Of Miracles' has been a focus of controversy ever since its publication. The challenge to Christian orthodoxy was… Expand

BACKGROUND This paper investigates whether state legislators find testimony influential, to what extent testimony influences… Expand

Children have a bias to trust spoken testimony, yet early readers have an even stronger bias to trust print. Here, we ask how… Expand

By age 3, children track a speaker's record of past accuracy and use it as a cue to current reliability. Two experiments (N=95… Expand

In this statement, the Senior Social Scientist of the Rand Institute on Education and Training testified that improving the… Expand

How do children resolve conflicts between a self-generated belief and what they are told? Four studies investigated the… Expand