Abstract

Source monitoring (SM) plays an indispensable role in children’s lives, requiring essential skills to mediate their ability in various cognitive and social functions. The accuracy of such skills significantly impact children’s knowledge base and beliefs about the world. The current review aimed to present a vast and comprehensive review of research on children’s SM, exploring the results of applied and experimental studies. The discussion also addressed applied research related to children’s SM involving the misinformation effect paradigm as well as training children in SM skills. This review served to propose a window into a coherent starting point for researchers investigating children’s SM, building a valuable synthesis of currently available information to identify critical areas for potential future research.