Groups' actions trump injunctive reaction in an incidental observation by young children.

Children's ability to use social information to direct their behavior is key to their survival and development. However, in observing adult behavior, children are confronted with multiple forms of social information that may vary in reliability and adaptiveness. Two of the most well established...

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Autores principales:	Cameron R Turner, Mark Nielsen, Emma Collier-Baker
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ebf3796feb22465889655731450fc1a72021-11-25T06:01:31ZGroups' actions trump injunctive reaction in an incidental observation by young children.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0107375https://doaj.org/article/ebf3796feb22465889655731450fc1a72014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25198163/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Children's ability to use social information to direct their behavior is key to their survival and development. However, in observing adult behavior, children are confronted with multiple forms of social information that may vary in reliability and adaptiveness. Two of the most well established biases influencing human behavior are: (1) following the majority (majority influence or conformity); and (2) the use of emotional signals. The current experiment aimed to evaluate how children respond when both information about the majority behavior of a group (descriptive norm) and attitudes of the group towards a behavior (injunctive norm, expressed through an emotional reaction) are present and what happens when they are in conflict. We used a method designed to mimic the manner in which children might observe group members' behavior during development. Novel apparatuses were constructed for which there were two discrete actions that could be performed to retrieve a reward. Three-year-olds observed four adults demonstrating one set of actions, followed by a fifth adult who presented an alternative set of actions. The first four adults' injunctive responses to this fifth adult's actions were manipulated between-groups: positive, negative, or neutral. It was found that children preferred to copy the majority action, regardless of the injunctive reaction of the group. We argue that this affirms the adaptive utility of copying the majority.Cameron R TurnerMark NielsenEmma Collier-BakerPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 9, p e107375 (2014)
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description	Children's ability to use social information to direct their behavior is key to their survival and development. However, in observing adult behavior, children are confronted with multiple forms of social information that may vary in reliability and adaptiveness. Two of the most well established biases influencing human behavior are: (1) following the majority (majority influence or conformity); and (2) the use of emotional signals. The current experiment aimed to evaluate how children respond when both information about the majority behavior of a group (descriptive norm) and attitudes of the group towards a behavior (injunctive norm, expressed through an emotional reaction) are present and what happens when they are in conflict. We used a method designed to mimic the manner in which children might observe group members' behavior during development. Novel apparatuses were constructed for which there were two discrete actions that could be performed to retrieve a reward. Three-year-olds observed four adults demonstrating one set of actions, followed by a fifth adult who presented an alternative set of actions. The first four adults' injunctive responses to this fifth adult's actions were manipulated between-groups: positive, negative, or neutral. It was found that children preferred to copy the majority action, regardless of the injunctive reaction of the group. We argue that this affirms the adaptive utility of copying the majority.
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title	Groups' actions trump injunctive reaction in an incidental observation by young children.
title_short	Groups' actions trump injunctive reaction in an incidental observation by young children.
title_full	Groups' actions trump injunctive reaction in an incidental observation by young children.
title_fullStr	Groups' actions trump injunctive reaction in an incidental observation by young children.
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Groups' actions trump injunctive reaction in an incidental observation by young children.

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