Outputs (3)

Taking account of others’ goals in social information use: Developmental changes in 3- to 7-year-old children (2021)
Journal Article
Blakey, K. H., Atkinson, M., Rafetseder, E., Renner, E., & Caldwell, C. A. (2022). Taking account of others’ goals in social information use: Developmental changes in 3- to 7-year-old children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 215, Article 105325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105325

The ability to take mental states such as goals into account when interpreting others’ behavior has been proposed to be what sets human use of social information apart from that of other animals. If so, children’s social information use would be expe... Read More about Taking account of others’ goals in social information use: Developmental changes in 3- to 7-year-old children.

Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture (2021)
Journal Article
Blakey, K. H., Rafetseder, E., Atkinson, M., Renner, E., Cowan-Forsythe, F., Sati, S. J., & Caldwell, C. A. (2021). Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture. PLoS ONE, 16(8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256605

Human learners are rarely the passive recipients of valuable social information. Rather, learners usually have to actively seek out information from a variety of potential others to determine who is in a position to provide useful information. Yet, t... Read More about Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture.

The use of individual, social, and animated cue information by capuchin monkeys and children in a touchscreen task (2021)
Journal Article
Renner, E., Kean, D., Atkinson, M., & Caldwell, C. A. (2021). The use of individual, social, and animated cue information by capuchin monkeys and children in a touchscreen task. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 1043. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80221-4

The distinctiveness of human cumulative culture raises the question of whether humans respond differently to information originating from social sources, compared with information from other sources. Further, does any such differential responding set... Read More about The use of individual, social, and animated cue information by capuchin monkeys and children in a touchscreen task.