Using Behavioral Consensus To Learn About Social Conventions In Early Childhood

Adults make inferences about the conventionality of others’ behaviours based on their prevalence across individuals. Here, we look at whether children use behavioural consensus as a cue to conventionality, and whether this informs which cultural models children choose to learn from. We find that 2-...

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Main Authors: Wanying Zhao, Andrew S. Baron, J Kiley Hamlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01510/full