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Social Influence (Selective trust:
Weighing Familiarity and Recent…
Social Influence
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Conformity
- 4 pre-test trials: line judgement in absence of majority
- 4 test trials: watch movie where 3 adult informants pointed to one of the 2 smaller lines
DV:
- 4 line judgment questions: "they pointed to this line. what line do you think is longest?"
- informant judgement questions: "was the girl in the green shirt very good or not very good at saying which line is long?"
- memory check questions: "Which line did the girls say was long? which line did you say was long?"
Results:
- line judgement: children became more resistant to informant's judgement on later trials; rate of deferrence was greater amongst Asian-Americans than Caucasian American children
- informant judgement: children who judged all 3 informants appropriately = more likely to always be correct in choosing the biggest line
- memory check: children who were always correct in judging lines were more likely to correctly remember responses
- 3 and 4 y/o children
- asked to judge which line was the longest, independently and in the presence of inaccurate consensus of adult informants
Exp 2: Asked to solve a practical problem - select the longest strip to build an adequate bridge
- all 3 and 4 y/o correctly chose the longest line to complete the bridge on all 4 trials
- both groups relied on own perceptual judgement, regardless of whether they had initially deferred to inaccurae consensus
Human culture is dependent on transmission of information between members of a community, both within and across generationskey psychological issue:
- degree to which the recipient trusts informants to supply accurate information
~ young children are NOT credulous!! they appraise the reliability of their informants
- Conformity = tendency of minority observers to forgo their own behavioural tendency by adopting the behaviours of majority
- Majority-based transmission = increased likelihood of naive observers to acquire the behaviour of majority