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#742 Zoe Liberman: Infant Social Cognition, Social Categorization, Gossip, and Ritual

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How Do Children Decide Whether to Trust Information That They Hear?

Gossip is like a second-hand secret. How do children decide whether to trust information that they hear? Most of what kids learn is from other people, not from their own experience in the world. Kids understand that people are socially motivated and how they share these kinds of pieces of information. They're more likely to discount information that's in line with speaker's bias.

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