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    "pk": 27308,
    "title": "Investigating Sensitivity to Shared Information and Personal Experience in\nChildren’s Use of Majority Information",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "When learning from others, rather than simply following the\nmajority’s opinion, we need to accurately evaluate the quality\nof the information both the majority and the minority provide,\nand integrate that information with our own personal\nexperience. This is especially true when the majority’s opinion\nis based on lower quality information, because they shared the\nsame evidence rather than collecting evidence independently.\nPrevious work demonstrated that adults are sensitive to the\nquality of the majority’s information, consistent with the\npredictions of a Bayesian rational model (Whalen, Griffiths, &\nBuchsbaum, in press). In two behavioural experiments, we\ninvestigated how preschoolers combine testimony from a\nmajority that conflicts with a minority or with the child’s own\npersonal evidence. Unlike adults, children over-relied on the\nmajority when given only testimony. However, when also\ngiven their own conflicting evidence, children relied\nsignificantly less on the majority and over-relied on their own\nevidence. These findings help explain why children may\nfollow the majority at times, but in others trust their own\njudgements.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Selective Trust; Conformity Bias; Children;\nStatistical Dependency; Bayesian Modeling; Social Learning"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/17w678wg",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Kay",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Otsubo",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Toronto",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Andrew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Whalen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Daphna",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Buchsbaum",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Toronto",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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