Psychology

Pour the same water into a taller glass, and a 5-year-old swears there's more

Jean Piaget showed young children two identical glasses of water, then poured one into a taller, thinner glass. Children under about seven typically insist the taller glass now holds more — they haven't yet grasped that quantity stays constant despite a change in shape.

Jean Piaget, The Child's Conception of Number — 1952

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