{"pk":29535,"title":"Is She a Good Teacher? Children Learn to use Meaningful Gesture as a Marker of aGood Informant","subtitle":null,"abstract":"To learn from others, children rely on cues (e.g., familiarity) toinfer who will provide useful information. We extend thisresearch to ask whether children will use an informant’sinclination to gesture as a marker of whether they are a goodperson to learn from. Children (N=459, ages 4-12 years)watched videos in which actresses made statementsaccompanied by meaningful iconic gestures, beat gestures, orno gestures. After each trial, children were asked “Who do youthink would be a good teacher?” (good teacher- experimentalcondition) or “Who do you think would be a good friend?”(good friend-control condition). Results show children dobelieve that someone who produces iconic gesture would makea good teacher over someone who does not, but this is only laterin childhood and only if a child has the propensity to seegesture as meaningful. The same effects were not found in thegood-friend condition.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"gesture; learning; informants"}],"section":"Poster Session 1","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58w178g4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Elizabeth","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Wakefield","name_suffix":"","institution":"Loyola University Chicago","department":""},{"first_name":"Eliza","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Congdon","name_suffix":"","institution":"Williams College","department":""},{"first_name":"Miriam","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Novack","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""},{"first_name":"Lauren","middle_name":"H.","last_name":"Howard","name_suffix":"","institution":"Franklin & Marshall College","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29535/galley/19395/download/"}]}