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二零一七年十二月十九日

点击这里 to read about the 创新领导力’s very own Dr. Samuel Ronfard’s work in NPR!

孩子们在小学早期就开始测试令人惊讶的说法

作者:Tania Lombrozo

“… In short, children don’t just soak up what they’re told: They integrate what they hear with other sources of evidence, and they 考虑到举报人的可靠性和专业知识. 但这些能力是随着时间的推移而发展的,孩子们必须学会将这些能力与其他活动相协调,比如提问和自己观察。 In fact, as children learn and mature, they don’t simply become more critical consumers of what others say, they also learn how to seek out the evidence that will allow them to 测试 surprising claims.

That’s the core finding from a new  forthcoming in the journal 发展心理学, authored by psychologists Samuel Ronfard, Eve Chen, and Paul Harris. In the 纸, Ronfard and colleagues investigated how children respond to a counterintuitive claim — and in particular, whether they would go on to deliberately 测试 a claim from an adult when it conflicted with their prior expectations….”