Young children heed advice selectively

Rakoczy, Hannes; Ehrling, Christoph; Harris, Paul L.; Schultze, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2015.04.007

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“…Overconfidence in one's own judgments, as indexed by the rejection of advice from others, is an effect that has been robustly demonstrated in adults (Soll & Mannes, ; Yaniv & Kleinberger, ). Young children, in contrast, seem especially willing to update their own initial guesses on the basis of testimony from others (Rakoczy, Ehrling, Harris, & Schultze, ; Robinson & Whitcombe, ). However, a recent study finds that they become increasingly reluctant to do so with age (Morgan et al., ).…”

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The Development of Selective Copying: Children's Learning From an Expert Versus Their Mother

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This study tested the prediction that, with age, children should rely less on familiarity and more on expertise in their selective social learning. Experiment 1 (N = 50) found that 5- to 6-year-olds copied the technique their mother used to extract a prize from a novel puzzle box, in preference to both a stranger and an established expert. This bias occurred despite children acknowledging the expert model's superior capability. Experiment 2 (N = 50) demonstrated a shift in 7- to 8-year-olds toward copying the expert. Children aged 9-10 years did not copy according to a model bias. The findings of a follow-up study (N = 30) confirmed that, instead, they prioritized their own-partially flawed-causal understanding of the puzzle box.

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“…However, people continue to egocentrically discount even when their own reasons are not accessible and when they believe advisors to be as skillful as themselves (Soll & Mannes, 2011). Interestingly, 3-to 6-year-old children weight opinions from others very highly, often choosing the opinion of an ignorant individual over their own (Rakoczy, Ehrling, Harris, & Schultze, 2015). By early adulthood, however, something happens that suppresses the willingness to take advice.…”

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Advice as a form of social influence: Informational motives and the consequences for accuracy

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2017

Social & Personality Psych

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In this article, we ask how well people fulfill informational motives by using the judgments of others. We build on advice-taking research from the judgment and decision making literature, which has developed a distinct paradigm to test how accurately people incorporate information from others. We use a literature review to show that people have mixed success in fulfilling informational motives-they increase their accuracy through the use of advice, but not as much as they could. We develop insights about how people perceive advisors and try to pursue advice-and where their perceptions may lead them astray. We conclude by proposing that future work further investigate the reasons people fail to use advice by building on the current advice taking paradigm used in judgment and decision making, but with a richer understanding of advice taking as a dynamic process that often entails complex decisions and normative motives.

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“…Berenda (11) provided some of the first evidence for behavioral conformity to incorrect group judgments in 7- to 10-y-old children. Children below the age of 7 y (and as young as 3 y) are able to make judgments about socially delivered information, preferring the more accurate and reliable advisor (12) and modify their judgments accordingly (13). However, there are also developmental differences in conforming to a group consensus: whereas 7-y-olds already use social information in both public and private perceptual decisions, they do so to a lesser extent than 10- and 13-y-olds or adults (14).…”

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Developmental trajectory of social influence integration into perceptual decisions in children

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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SignificanceSocial influence biases even simple perceptual decisions across a range of contexts. The development and mechanism of such biases remain unclear. We systematically examined the developmental course of social influence bias exerted by another person on perceptual decisions in children between 6 and 14 years old. To probe underlying mechanisms, we applied the computational model drift diffusion to behavioral response data. Our results show that although young neurotypical children seem to be unaffected by social influence, adolescents develop a systematic bias of their responses in the direction of social influence and appear to do so by integrating social information into visual perceptual processing. The same pattern of results did not emerge in age-matched autistic children, suggesting a different developmental trajectory.

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Young children heed advice selectively

Cited by 20 publications

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The Development of Selective Copying: Children's Learning From an Expert Versus Their Mother

The Development of Selective Copying: Children's Learning From an Expert Versus Their Mother

Advice as a form of social influence: Informational motives and the consequences for accuracy

Developmental trajectory of social influence integration into perceptual decisions in children

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