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dc.contributor.authorBlakey, Kirsten H
dc.contributor.authorRafetseder, Eva
dc.contributor.authorAtkinson, Mark
dc.contributor.authorRenner, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorCowan-Forsythe, Fia
dc.contributor.authorSati, Shivani J
dc.contributor.authorCaldwell, Christine A
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-15T17:30:14Z
dc.date.available2021-09-15T17:30:14Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-24
dc.identifier.citationBlakey , K H , Rafetseder , E , Atkinson , M , Renner , E , Cowan-Forsythe , F , Sati , S J & Caldwell , C A 2021 , ' Development of strategic social information seeking : implications for cumulative culture ' , PLoS ONE , vol. 16 , no. 8 , e0256605 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256605en
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 275885933
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 58a4dcb6-dd31-4df4-8871-b0b7e1a8ad7e
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:2C6F3A6D982AEF62009FABC5B2A1141A
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000687944100033
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85114848678
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23965
dc.descriptionKHB: PhD studentship funded by the Division of Psychology, University of Stirling. CAC: 648841 RATCHETCOG ERC-2014-CoG European Research Council https://erc.europa.eu/en
dc.description.abstractHuman learners are rarely the passive recipients of valuable social information. Rather, learners usually have to actively seek out information from a variety of potential others to determine who is in a position to provide useful information. Yet, the majority of developmental social learning paradigms do not address participants' ability to seek out information for themselves. To investigate age-related changes in children's ability to seek out appropriate social information, 3- to 8-year-olds (N = 218) were presented with a task requiring them to identify which of four possible demonstrators could provide critical information for unlocking a box. Appropriate information seeking improved significantly with age. The particularly high performance of 7- and 8-year-olds was consistent with the expectation that older children's increased metacognitive understanding would allow them to identify appropriate information sources. Appropriate social information seeking may have been overlooked as a significant cognitive challenge involved in fully benefiting from others' knowledge, potentially influencing understanding of the phylogenetic distribution of cumulative culture.
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dc.language.isoeng
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dc.rightsCopyright: © 2021 Blakey et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleDevelopment of strategic social information seeking : implications for cumulative cultureen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Managementen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256605
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256605#sec013en


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