{"pk":25542,"title":"Can Children Balance the Size of a Majority with the Quality of their Information?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We investigate how children balance the quality of\ninformants’ knowledge with the number of endorsements\nwhen deciding which of two boxes contains the better option.\nWhen group numbers are equal, children choose boxes\nendorsed by informants with visual access over informants\nwith hearsay (Experiment 1), but are at chance when group\nsize conflicts with quality of knowledge (Experiments 2 and\n3). This suggests that children tend to conform to a majority\nopinion, compared to adults (Experiment 4) and a normative\ncomputational model. These studies suggest that preschoolers\nconsider the testimony of multiple informants and evaluate\ntheir knowledge sources, but may assume that informants are\nmore individually informative than they are","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gd8h742","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jane","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hu","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Washington","department":""},{"first_name":"Andrew","middle_name":"","last_name":"Whalen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of St Andrews","department":""},{"first_name":"Daphna","middle_name":"","last_name":"Buchsbaum","name_suffix":"","institution":"UToronto","department":""},{"first_name":"Tom","middle_name":"","last_name":"Griffiths","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCB","department":""},{"first_name":"Fei","middle_name":"","last_name":"Xu","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCB","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25542/galley/15166/download/"}]}