Testing what you’re told: Young children’s empirical investigation of a surprising claim. Journal of Cognition and Development. doi:...

Young children update their trust in an informant’s claim when experience tells them otherwise. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,...

Inhibiting intuition: Scaffolding children’s theory construction about species evolution in the face of competing explanations....

Exploring the Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Skills Underlying Lexical Processing Efficiency as Measured by the...

Less imitation of arbitrary actions is a specific developmental precursor to callous-unemotional traits in early childhood. Journal of...

Teaching natural selection in early elementary classrooms: Can a storybook intervention reduce teleological misunderstandings? Evolution:...

Preschoolers in Belarus and Turkey accept an adult’s counterintuitive claim and do not spontaneously seek evidence to test that claim....

Teaching a novel word: Parenting styles and toddlers' word learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Advance online...

Children's and adults’ epistemic trust in and impressions of inaccurate informants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Advance...

Question-asking in childhood: A review of the literature and a framework for understanding its development. Developmental Review. Advance...

The emergence of the empirical stance: Children's testing of counterintuitive claims. Developmental psychology. Click here to read the...

How children use accuracy information to infer informant intentions and to make reward decisions. Journal of Experimental Child...

Cognitive mechanisms associated with children's selective teaching. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Advance online publication....

Preschoolers continually adjust their epistemic trust based on an informant’s ongoing accuracy. Child Development. Advance online...

The influence of first-hand-testimony and hearsay on children’s belief in the improbable. Child Development. Advance online publication....

A diverse and flexible teaching toolkit facilitates the human capacity for cumulative culture. Review of Philosophy and Psychology....

Children’s decision to transmit information is guided by their evaluation of the nature of that information. Review of Philosophy and...