2018
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12294
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Children's Belief in Counterintuitive and Counterperceptual Messages

Abstract: Children's cognition is shaped, in part, by the messages provided by parents, educators, and peers. Some of these messages defy children's own knowledge or perceptions-these claims may be confronted regularly in science classes and museums (e.g., when learning about invisible gases or species categorization) and in religious settings (e.g., when learning about all-powerful deities, souls, or qi). How are children's beliefs influenced by these countermessages? Using a constructivist framework, I review research… Show more

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“…Furthermore, starting at 4 four years of age, children are able to weigh conflicting information that is gathered either by direct observation or by testimony according to it's reliability. For example, they excuse past inaccuracy caused by limited informational access (Nurmsoo & Robinson;2009) or ignore false testimony and rely on what they themselves have perceived (Ma & Ganea;2010;Lane;2018;Tamis-LeMonda et al, 2008).…”
Section: Selective Social Belief Revision In Young Childrenmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, starting at 4 four years of age, children are able to weigh conflicting information that is gathered either by direct observation or by testimony according to it's reliability. For example, they excuse past inaccuracy caused by limited informational access (Nurmsoo & Robinson;2009) or ignore false testimony and rely on what they themselves have perceived (Ma & Ganea;2010;Lane;2018;Tamis-LeMonda et al, 2008).…”
Section: Selective Social Belief Revision In Young Childrenmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Children acquire much of their knowledge from others (see Gelman, ; Harris, ), and this is especially true when first‐hand experience is lacking (for reviews, see Harris & Koenig, ; Lane & Harris, ; Lane, ). Although most experimental work on children's “trust in testimony” has focused on transmitting information about the physical and biological domains (see Harris, ), testimony can also be a powerful mechanism for conveying social information (Dunbar, ; Rottman, Young, Blake, & Kelemen, ).…”
Section: Children's Sentiments Toward Out‐groupsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, although preschool children expect bigger objects to be heavier, they also know that some small objects can be heavy and that some big objects can be light. Our claim was moderately counterintuitive and this likely contributed to children’s endorsement of it (see Lane, 2018 for a review). Yet, by itself, the nature of the claim cannot explain why, unlike preschool children, elementary school children engage in empirical testing of that claim (Ronfard et al, 2018; under review).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 88%