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Direct linkKominsky, Jonathan F.; Gerstenberg, Tobias; Pelz, Madeline; Sheskin, Mark; Singmann, Henrik; Schulz, Laura; Keil, Frank C. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Young children often struggle to answer the question "what would have happened?" particularly in cases where the adult-like "correct" answer has the same outcome as the event that actually occurred. Previous work has assumed that children fail because they cannot engage in accurate counterfactual simulations. Children have…
Descriptors: Simulation, Children, Age Differences, Child Development
Kominsky, Jonathan F.; Langthorne, Philip; Keil, Frank C. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Suppose you are presented with 2 informants who have provided answers to the same question. One provides a precise and confident answer, and the other says that they do not know. If you were asked which of these 2 informants was more of an expert, intuitively you would select the informant who provided the certain answer over the ignorant…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Expertise, Knowledge Level
Banerjee, Konika; Kominsky, Jonathan F.; Fernando, Madhawee; Keil, Frank C. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Across 3 experiments, we found evidence that information about who owns an artifact influenced 5- to 10-year-old children's and adults' judgments about that artifact's primary function. Children's and adults' use of ownership information was underpinned by their inference that owners are typically familiar with owned artifacts and are therefore…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Ownership, Information Utilization
