Dr. Kata Oláh

My research focuses on the question of how young children process information about their social environment, and how their development is aided by both the direct and wider social environment. More specifically, our experiments focus primarily on answering the following questions: When do children understand that human societies are organized into groups, and that the behavior of members in each group can be governed by different norms? How do children acquire information from others, and to what extent are learning processes influenced by different characteristics of the teacher? How do children understand that others may have information and beliefs different from their own, and that the other’s behavior should be interpreted in light of this?