ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2013
Majority influence in children and other animals.
Review in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.
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- Expanding the understanding of majority-bias in children's social learning.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Collective knowledge and the dynamics of culture in chimpanzees.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
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- Does social influence affect COVID-19 vaccination intention among the unvaccinated?Evolutionary human sciences · 2022Article
- Foraging zebra finches (Biology letters · 2021Article
- The Relationship Between Confidence and Conformity in a Non-routine Counting Task With Young Children: Dedicated to the Memory of Purificación Rodríguez.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Shaping Healthy Eating Habits in Children With Persuasive Strategies: Toward a Typology.Frontiers in public health · 2021Review
- Foraging behaviour alters with social environment in a juvenile songbird.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Social Conformity in Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
- Human children but not chimpanzees make irrational decisions driven by social comparison.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Majority rules: how good are we at aggregating convergent opinions?Evolutionary human sciences · 2019Review
- Following the Majority: Social Influence in Trusting Behavior.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
We here review existing evidence for majority influences in children under the age of ten years and comparable studies with animals ranging from fish to apes. Throughout the review, we structure the discussion surrounding majority influences by differentiating the behaviour of individuals in the presence of a majority and the underlying mechanisms and motivations. Most of the relevant research to date in both developmental psychology and comparative psychology has focused on the behavioural outcomes, where a multitude of mechanisms could be at play. We further propose that interpreting cross-species differences in behavioural patterns is difficult without considering the psychology of the individual. Some attempts at this have been made both in developmental psychology and comparative psychology. We propose that physiological measures should be used to subsidize behavioural studies in an attempt to understand the composition of mechanisms and motivations underlying majority influence. We synthesize the relevant evidence on human brain function in order to provide a framework for future investigation in this area. In addition to streamlining future research efforts, we aim to create a conceptual platform for productive exchanges across the related disciplines of developmental and comparative psychology.
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