Does the majority always know best? Young children's flexible trust in majority opinion

Copying the majority is generally an adaptive social learning strategy but the majority does not always know best. Previous work has demonstrated young children's selective uptake of information from a consensus over a lone dissenter. The current study examined children's flexibility in fo...

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Main Author: Einav, Shiri
Format: Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29398/