Table 2.

Novel Behavioral Rule Selective Trust Trials

Experimenter preface	Informants’ testimony	Experimenter Endorse prompt
Only one of the buttons on that box is okay to push, and the other is not okay to push.	If you push the yellow [blue] button, you’ll get in trouble.	She said not to press the yellow button, and she said not to press the blue button. Which button should you NOT press, the yellow or the blue?
This is the stacking cup game. One of these cups cannot be played – it’s cheating.	Don’t play the blue [orange] cup, it’s cheating.	She said the orange cup is cheating and she said the blue cup is cheating. Can you tell me which cup is cheating, the orange or the blue
One of these boxes has something kind of scary inside and should NOT be opened	Do NOT open the green [blue] box.	She said you shouldn’t open the blue box, and she said you shouldn’t open the green box. Which box should you NOT open, the blue or the green?”
One of these bowls is okay to take candy from, and one belongs to a girl named Kelly.	You can take candy from that bowl, but don’t take candy from the pink [blue] bowl because it belongs to Kelly and that would be stealing.	She said you shouldn’t take candy from the pink bowl, and she said you shouldn’t take candy from the blue bowl. Which bowl should you NOT take candy from, the pink or the blue?