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SUBMITTER: Burdett ER
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5074571 | biostudies-other | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Burdett Emily R R ER Lucas Amanda J AJ Buchsbaum Daphna D McGuigan Nicola N Wood Lara A LA Whiten Andrew A
PloS one 20161021 10
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 relatively competent "expert" individual over an incompetent individual in both kinds of learning context. In experiment 2 (N = 80) we then tested whether children would copy a competent individual versus a ma ...[more]