@inproceedings{46f05f0d91814321bf6148d79f0e1f25,
title = "Children and adults differ in their strategies for social learning",
abstract = "Adults and children rely heavily on other people's testimony. However, domains of knowledge where there is no consensus on the truth are likely to result in conflicting testimonies. Previous research has demonstrated that in these cases, learners look towards the majority opinion to make decisions. However, it remains unclear how learners evaluate social information, given that considering either the overall valence, or the number of testimonies, or both may lead to different conclusions. We therefore formalized several social learning strategies and compared them to the performance of adults and children. We find that children use different strategies than adults. This suggests that the development of social learning may involve the acquisition of cognitive strategies.",
keywords = "Bayesian models, cognitive development, decision-making, probabilistic reasoning, social learning",
author = "Falk Lieder and Sim, {Zi Lin} and Hu, {Jane C.} and Griffiths, {Thomas L.} and Fei Xu",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. SMA-1228541. We thank Meg Bishop and Shirley Chen for collecting the children{\textquoteright}s data. Part of this work was presented as a poster at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in March 2015. Funding Information: This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. SMA-1228541. We thank Meg Bishop and Shirley Chen for collecting the children's data. Part of this work was presented as a poster at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in March 2015. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015.All rights reserved.; 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Mind, Technology, and Society, CogSci 2015 ; Conference date: 23-07-2015 Through 25-07-2015",
year = "2015",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "1368--1373",
editor = "Noelle, {David C.} and Rick Dale and Anne Warlaumont and Jeff Yoshimi and Teenie Matlock and Jennings, {Carolyn D.} and Maglio, {Paul P.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015",
}