Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Who's in the Know? To a Preschooler, the Person Doing the Pointing

ScienceDaily -- If you want a preschooler to get the point, point. That's a lesson that can be drawn from a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. As part of their investigation of how small children know what other people know, the authors, Carolyn Palmquist and Vikram K. Jaswal of the University of Virginia, found they were able to mislead preschoolers with the simple introduction of a pointing gesture.

MORE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120229155538.htm