The extent to which young children monitor and use the truth of assertions to gauge the reliability of subsequent testimony was examined. Three- and 4-year-old children were presented with two informants, an accurate labeler and an inaccurate labeler. They were then invited to learn names for novel objects from these informants. The children correctly monitored and identified the informants on ...

Smith, Wiehagen and Zeugmann (1997) showed an interesting connection between learning with bounded number of mind changes from informants and classification from informant. They showed that if an indexed family of languages L is learnable via informants, using at most m mind changes, then one can partition 2 , the class of all languages, into m+2 subclasses L1, . . . ,Lm+2 such that (1) ⋃ i∈{1,...

Organizational research frequently involves seeking judgmental response data from informants within organizations. This article discusses why using rnultiple informants improves the quality of response data and thereby the validity of research findings. The authors show that when there are multiple informants who disagree, responses aggregated with confidenceor competence-based weights outperto...

This paper examines the role of transformational leadership as a motivational factor in the process of continuous enhancement of IT-based solutions in organizational settings. We investigate the moderating effect of transformational leadership on the relationship between the learning orientation of various informants in technology enhancement activities and their intent to contribute informatio...

Introduction. This paper discusses how exploring the research process indepth and over time contributes to a fuller understanding of interactions with various representations of information. Method. A longitudinal ethnographic study explored decisions made by two informants involved in scholarly research. Relevance assessment and information seeking were observed as part of informants' own ongo...

We found o direct relationship between voriotion in informants’ grommoticality intuitions about pronoun coreference and variation in the same informants’ use of a clause segmentation strategy during sentence perception. It hos been proproposed that ‘c-command’, a structural principle defined in terms of constituent dominance relations, constrains within-sentence coreference between pronouns and...