Did you miss our Wonder Kids talk with Dr. Susan Birch? Learn more about how children’s ability to reason about people’s mental states can influence learning and foster healthy development below.
Date:
Saturday, April 24th, 2021
Time:
1:00pm PDT
Speaker:
Dr. Susan Birch, Associate Professor
Topic:
How children’s understanding of people’s mental states fosters healthy development
Description:
In this talk, Dr. Birch highlights various ways children’s ability to reason about people’s mental states can influence learning and foster healthy development. Reviewing research on how children use various social cues to decide who is a knowledgeable or credible source of information, she also discusses a fundamental bias in how children and adults reason about what others know, referred to as the ‘curse of knowledge bias’, and its implications for social reasoning and decision making.