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The Developmental Origins of Selective Social Learning
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The study of children’s social learning is a topic of central importance to our understanding of human development. Learning from others allows children to acquire information efficiently; however, not all information conveyed by others is accurate or worth learning. A large body of research conducted over the past decade has shown that preschoolers learn selectively from some individuals over others. In the present article, we summarize our work and that of others on the developmental origins of selective social learning during infancy. The results of these studies indicate that infants are sensitive to a number of cues, including competence, age, and confidence, when deciding from whom to learn. We highlight the important implications of this research for our understanding of the cognitive and social skills necessary for selective learning and point out promising avenues for future research.
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“This encourages the agent to learn that the behaviour of other agents O in the environment may be sub-optimal, in which case agent n should engage in selective social learning [Poulin-Dubois and Brosseau-Liard, 2016].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Poulin-Dubois, D., & Brosseau-Liard, P.
- Affiliations
- Department of Psychology, Concordia University
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Venue
- Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-02
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 60-64
- ISSN
- 0963-7214 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8721
- PMC
- PMC4840934
- OpenAlex
- W2339621095
- Cited by
- 113
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 6
- FWCI
- 26.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Current Directions in Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- uO Research (University of Ottawa) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- University of Ottawa - Library
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD068458)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Keywords
- social learning, infant learning, developmental origins, learning from others, social cues, preschool children, social cognition
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