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    "pk": 27922,
    "title": "Any consensus will do: The failure to distinguish between 'true' and 'false' consensus",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "As we navigate our information-rich world, we frequently\ninterpret and integrate testimony from external sources\n(friends, teachers, books, internet articles, etc.) – deciding\nwhich pieces of information to believe, and which to discard.\nOne cue to a statement’s trustworthiness is whether it comes\nfrom a consensus (i.e., when a majority of people agree). But\nwhat counts as consensus? When presented with a set of\nagreeing sources, do we evaluate the quality of consensus –\nfor example, asking whether each source arrived at their\nconclusion by independent means? In a first experiment, we\ndemonstrate that individuals are insensitive to the quality of a\nconsensus, and are equally confident in conclusions drawn\nfrom a ‘true’ consensus (i.e., one derived from many primary\nsources) and those drawn from a ‘false’ consensus (i.e., one\nderived from many secondary sources but only a single\nprimary source). In a second experiment, we find that this\ncontinues to be true even when the expertise of the secondary\nsources is minimized. Together, our experiments provide\nconverging evidence that people do not properly discount (or\ndiscount at all) information from a ‘false’ consensus.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "consensus; conformity; social learning; reasoning"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6s35j687",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Sami",
            "middle_name": "R",
            "last_name": "Yousif",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Rosie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Aboody",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Frank",
            "middle_name": "C",
            "last_name": "Keil",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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