The Role of Social Cognition in Early Trust

Overview

Journal Trends Cogn Sci

Date 2005 Sep 3

PMID 16137918

Citations 20

Authors

Melissa A Koenig

Paul L Harris

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Abstract

Language serves as a means of learning from other people. However, communication systems allow the truth to be disguised, whether out of ignorance, fear, deviousness or mistaken judgment. Recent research has explored the extent to which young children are selective in whom they trust for information and the mechanisms that support such selectivity.

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