Five-year-olds are willing, but 4-year-olds refuse, to trust informants who offer new and unfamiliar labels for parts of the body

•Examined selective trust in accurate, inaccurate and novel labelers of body parts.•Three-year-olds are sensitive to inaccuracy and 4-year-olds favor accuracy.•But 3- and 4-year-olds are uncertain about how to construe the novel labeler.•Five-year-olds are more trusting of the novel labeler than the...

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