In the cultural context of rapidly increasing internet access, two experiments examine how 5- to 8-year-old Chinese children and adults evaluate information from an unspecified internet source or a known human informant (a teacher or a peer). In Experiment 1, when evaluating statements from a variety of domains, adults regarded the internet and a teacher as more trustworthy than a peer. Younger children did not show differential endorsement of statements by any source, and older children endorsed statements attributed to a teacher over those fr...
