Article Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "pk": 25575,
    "title": "The better part of not knowing: Virtuous ignorance",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "For cases in which precise information is practically or\nactually unknowable, certainty and precision can indicate a\nlack of competence, while expressions of ignorance may\nindicate greater expertise. In two experiments, we\ninvestigated whether children and adults are able to use this\n“virtuous ignorance” as a cue to expertise. Experiment 1\nfound that adults and children older than 9 years selected\nconfident informants for knowable information and ignorant\ninformants for unknowable information. However, 5-7-yearolds\noverwhelmingly favored a confident informant, even\nwhen such precision was completely implausible. In\nExperiment 2, we demonstrated that 5-8-year-olds and adults\nare both able to distinguish between knowable and\nunknowable items when asked how difficult the information\nwould be to acquire, but those same children still failed to\nreject the precise and confident informant for unknowable\nitems. We suggest that children have difficulty integrating\ninformation about the knowability of particular facts into their\nevaluations of expertise",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "cognitive development; credibility; informants;\nconfidence; epistemological beliefs"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8232v65n",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jonathan",
            "middle_name": "F",
            "last_name": "Kominsky",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Philip",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Langthorne",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Frank",
            "middle_name": "C",
            "last_name": "Keil",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
    "render_galley": null,
    "galleys": [
        {
            "label": "PDF",
            "type": "pdf",
            "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25575/galley/15199/download/"
        }
    ]
}