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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Cognition

Background:

  • Children's ability to evaluate information sources is crucial for learning.
  • Understanding deception and selective trust is key to social development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how preschool-age children reason about the reliability of deceptive versus helpful information sources.
  • To examine developmental trends in selective trust from ages 3 to 5.
  • To explore the relationship between selective trust and mental state inference abilities.

Main Methods:

  • Ninety children aged 3–5 years participated.
  • Children observed 'helpers' (providing correct advice) and 'trickers' (providing incorrect advice) about a hidden sticker's location.
  • Performance was assessed based on advice acceptance and metacognitive judgments.

Main Results:

  • Three-year-olds accepted advice indiscriminately from both helpers and trickers.
  • Four-year-olds differentiated helpers from trickers but did not show selective trust in advice.
  • Five-year-olds systematically preferred advice from helpers, demonstrating selective trust.
  • Selective trust correlated with better mental state inference skills.

Conclusions:

  • The ability to develop selective trust in reliable sources emerges around age five.
  • This developmental shift is linked to advancing cognitive abilities, specifically mental state inference.
  • Findings highlight the development of critical evaluation skills in early childhood.