{"product_id":"trusting-what-youre-told-how-children-learn-from-others","title":"Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from Others","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments  as conventional wisdom holds  how would a child discover that the earth is roundnever mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Overturning both cognitive and commonplace theories about how children learn  Trusting What Youre Told begins by reminding us of a basic truth: Most of what we know we learned from others.  Children recognize early on that other people are an excellent source of information. And so they ask questions. But youngsters are also remarkably discriminating as they weigh the responses they elicit. And how much they trust what they are told has a lot to do with their assessment of its source. Trusting What Youre Told opens a window into the moral reasoning of elementary school vegetarians  the preschoolers ability to distinguish historical narrative from fiction  and the six-year-olds nuanced stance toward magic: skeptical  while still open to miracles. Paul Harris shares striking cross-cultural findings  too  such as that children in religious communities in rural Central America resemble Bostonian children in being more confident about the existence of germs and oxygen than they are about souls and God.  We are biologically designed to learn from one another  Harris demonstrates  and this greediness for explanation marks a key difference between human beings and our primate cousins. Even Kanzi  a genius among bonobos  never uses his keyboard to ask for information: he only asks for treats.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44944865853493,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674065727","price":62.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674065727.jpg?v=1769857346","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/trusting-what-youre-told-how-children-learn-from-others","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}