Who's in the know? To a preschooler, the person doing the pointing
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 17:30
in Psychology & Sociology
If you want a preschooler to get the point, point. That's a lesson that can be drawn from a new study. As part of their investigation of how small children know what other people know, the authors found they were able to mislead preschoolers with the simple introduction of a pointing gesture.