TY - GEN
T1 - Can Children Balance the Size of a Majority with the Quality of their Information?
AU - Hu, Jane
AU - Whalen, Andrew
AU - Buchsbaum, Daphna
AU - Griffiths, Tom
AU - Xu, Fei
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. This research was supported by John Templeton Foundation Grant #40128, ESRC Grant [ES/K009540/1] awarded to DB and a NSF GRFP awarded to JH.
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PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - We investigate how children balance the quality of informants' knowledge with the number of endorsements when deciding which of two boxes contains the better option. When group numbers are equal, children choose boxes endorsed by informants with visual access over informants with hearsay (Experiment 1), but are at chance when group size conflicts with quality of knowledge (Experiments 2 and 3). This suggests that children tend to conform to a majority opinion, compared to adults (Experiment 4) and a normative computational model. These studies suggest that preschoolers consider the testimony of multiple informants and evaluate their knowledge sources, but may assume that informants are more individually informative than they are.
AB - We investigate how children balance the quality of informants' knowledge with the number of endorsements when deciding which of two boxes contains the better option. When group numbers are equal, children choose boxes endorsed by informants with visual access over informants with hearsay (Experiment 1), but are at chance when group size conflicts with quality of knowledge (Experiments 2 and 3). This suggests that children tend to conform to a majority opinion, compared to adults (Experiment 4) and a normative computational model. These studies suggest that preschoolers consider the testimony of multiple informants and evaluate their knowledge sources, but may assume that informants are more individually informative than they are.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015
SP - 956
EP - 961
BT - Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015
A2 - Noelle, David C.
A2 - Dale, Rick
A2 - Warlaumont, Anne
A2 - Yoshimi, Jeff
A2 - Matlock, Teenie
A2 - Jennings, Carolyn D.
A2 - Maglio, Paul P.
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Mind, Technology, and Society, CogSci 2015
Y2 - 23 July 2015 through 25 July 2015
ER -