{"pk":26802,"title":"I know what you need to know: Children’s developing theory of mind andpedagogical evidence selection","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Natural pedagogy emerges early in development (Knudsen &Liszkowski, 2012), but good teaching requires presenting ev-idence specific to learners’ knowledge (Shafto, Goodman, &Griffiths, 2014). How might the development of Theory ofMind (ToM) relate to the ability to select pedagogical evi-dence? We present a training study in which we investigatedthe link between preschool-aged children’s false-belief under-standing and their ability to select evidence for teaching. Ourresults suggest that children with more advanced ToM abili-ties were better evidence selectors, even when controlling foreffects of age and numerical conservation abilities. We alsofound that children who improved more in false-belief under-standing from pre- to post-test performed better on the peda-gogical tasks over the course of the training. Finally, we reporttentative evidence for a link between the pedagogical train-ing and improvements in ToM. Our findings suggest importantconnections between ToM and evidential reasoning in naturalpedagogy in early childhood.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"pedagogy"},{"word":"Theory of mind"},{"word":"evidence selection"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pp849wr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ilona","middle_name":" ","last_name":"Bass","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""},{"first_name":"Elizabeth","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bonawitz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""},{"first_name":"Patrick","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shafto","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""},{"first_name":"Dhaya","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ramarajan","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""},{"first_name":"Alison","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gopnik","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Henry","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wellman","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Michigan","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26802/galley/16438/download/"}]}