Wednesday 20 September 2006
Listen to the Wisdom of the Elders: and what if they are not wise ?
By hugo, Wednesday 20 September 2006: Cognition
Children can sometimes see adults as being omniscient, but they realize that other kids are not. However, it sometimes happens that the child is right and the adult wrong (more often than the latter recognize anyway). When a child and an adult disagree, are children able to switch their preferences and go for what the other child says if the adult as proven to be unreliable in the past? A new study published in Psychological Science answers yes.
