Do Children Copy an Expert or a Majority? Examining Selective Learning in Instrumental and Normative Contexts.

This study examined whether instrumental and normative learning contexts differentially influence 4- to 7-year-old children's social learning strategies; specifically, their dispositions to copy an expert versus a majority consensus. Experiment 1 (N = 44) established that children copied a rela...

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Main Authors: Emily R R Burdett, Amanda J Lucas, Daphna Buchsbaum, Nicola McGuigan, Lara A Wood, Andrew Whiten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5074571?pdf=render