{"pk":25668,"title":"Children’s Trust in Technological and Human Informants","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Children understand early in development that different\npeople know different things, and they are adept at using\nthis information to select appropriate sources of\ninformation (Lutz & Keil, 2002). However, in the current\ndigital age, information may be gathered from both\nhumans and technological sources that select and present\ninformation as humans do. Using methods designed to\nstudy epistemic trust in human informants (e.g., Koenig,\nClement, & Harris, 2004), the current study investigates\nchildren’s and adults’ selective trust in a technological\nand human informant. Children (ages 4 and 5) and adults\nwere presented with queries designed to probe their\nwillingness to seek out and accept information from\nhuman versus technological informants. The results\ndemonstrate that 4-year-olds prefer to seek information\nfrom a human informant, but by age 5, children show an\nincreasing preference for the technological informant.\nThe relationship between children’s trust and their\nexperience with technology is also discussed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"epistemic trust; technology; information"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rq1r8t6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Nicholaus","middle_name":"S","last_name":"Noles","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Louisville","department":""},{"first_name":"Judith","middle_name":"H","last_name":"Danovitch","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Louisville","department":""},{"first_name":"Patrick","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shafto","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers 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/25668/galley/15292/download/"}]}