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    "pk": 28910,
    "title": "Preschoolers’ Evaluations of Ignorant Agents are Situation-Specific",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Preschool children’s preference for knowledgeable agents over\nignorant and inaccurate agents (Sabbagh & Baldwin, 2001;\nKoenig & Harris, 2005; Rakoczy et al., 2015), is generally\ninterpreted as epistemic vigilance. However, Kushnir and\nKoenig (2017) recently found that without a contrasting\naccurate agent, preschoolers will learn new information from\nan agent who professed ignorance, but not from one who was\ninaccurate. Employing a two-speaker design contrasting an\nagent who professed ignorance about familiar object labels\nwith a speaker whose knowledge state was not revealed, we\nfound that preschoolers (N = 41; 3.50-4.89 years, M = 4.08\nyears) avoided requesting and endorsing novel information\nfrom the ignorant agent in the same domain as her previous\nignorance (i.e., labels). In different domains, however, (i.e.\nnovel function learning, resource sharing, etc.) they were at\nchance in choosing the ignorant agent. This suggests that\npreschoolers’ view of ignorance is situational, rather than\nuniformly negative.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
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        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "learning; testimony; social cognition; credibility;\ncognitive development; epistemic trust; accuracy; epistemic\nvigilance"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dq966f9",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Alyssa",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Varhol",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Beebe Hall",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tamar",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kushnir",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Beebe Hall",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Melissa",
            "middle_name": "A.",
            "last_name": "Koenig",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Beebe Hall",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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