@inproceedings{b1245f2270c54b4d93cc73f2e777d0be,
title = "When does the majority rule? Preschoolers' trust in majority informants varies by task domain",
abstract = "In order to learn about the world, young children rely on information provided by social partners. Past research has shown children consider a variety of factors when learning from others, including consensus. Corriveau, Fusaro, and Harris (2009) found that in an object labeling task, children trust responses that receive majority support, and they concluded that children prefer members of a majority as social informants. However, it is possible that children prefer majority members only in domains that rely strongly on socially constructed norms, such as object labeling, where non-social information is unavailable. We formalized this prediction using a rational model of learning from testimony across tasks, and compared our model's predictions to children's responses in object labeling and causal learning tasks. We find that in a causal learning task, a domain that relies less on socially constructed norms, children rely more on their personal observations than informant testimony.",
keywords = "Bayesian modeling, consensus, epistemic trust, social cognition, social learning, testimony",
author = "Hu, {Jane C.} and Daphna Buchsbaum and Griffiths, {Thomas L.} and Fei Xu",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by grant number 0845410 from the National Science Foundation, and two National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} CogSci 2013.All rights reserved.; 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics, CogSci 2013 ; Conference date: 31-07-2013 Through 03-08-2013",
year = "2013",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "2584--2589",
editor = "Markus Knauff and Natalie Sebanz and Michael Pauen and Ipke Wachsmuth",
booktitle = "Cooperative Minds",
}