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    "pk": 27746,
    "title": "Cognitive pragmatism: Children flexibly choose between facts and conjectures.",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Abundant work has looked at children’s ability to appropri-\nately reject testimonies and unverified claims (Butler et al,\n2017; Frazier, Gelman, & Wellman, 2009; Koenig, Clement,\n& Harris, 2004). However, sometimes our current knowledge\nis insufficient for solving a problem. In these cases, we should\nreject unsatisfying facts and prefer satisfying, if speculative,\nconjectures. In two studies, we gave 4-7 year-old children\n(Study 1, N=66; Study 2, N=32) questions that either could\nor could not be answered with available information. For each\nquestion, children made a binary choice between a factual an-\nswer citing information from the story or a conjectural answer\nthat made unverified claims. Across age groups, children suc-\ncessfully chose the more satisfying response regardless of its\ntruth value: children chose facts for questions with known an-\nswers and conjectures for questions with unknown answers.\nThese findings suggest that children will go beyond known in-\nformation to endorse unverified claims when they satisfy the\nquestion-under-discussion.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Cognitive Development"
        },
        {
            "word": "Explanations"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20r8d5j3",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Junyi",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Chu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Laura",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Schulz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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