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Using Behavioral Consensus to Learn about Social Conventions in Early Childhood

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, October 2016
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Title
Using Behavioral Consensus to Learn about Social Conventions in Early Childhood
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, October 2016
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01510
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Authors

Wanying Zhao, Andrew S Baron, J K Hamlin

Abstract

Adults make inferences about the conventionality of others' behaviors based on their prevalence across individuals. Here, we look at whether children use behavioral consensus as a cue to conventionality, and whether this informs which cultural models children choose to learn from. We find that 2- to 5-year old children exhibit increasing sensitivity to behavioral consensus with age, suggesting that like adults, young humans use behavioral consensus to identify social conventions. However, unlike previous studies showing children's tendencies to prefer and to learn from members of a consensus, the present study suggests that there are contexts in which children prefer and learn from unconventional individuals. The implications of these different preferences are discussed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
New Zealand 1 3%
Unknown 28 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 21%
Student > Master 4 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 10%
Lecturer 2 7%
Student > Bachelor 2 7%
Other 6 21%
Unknown 6 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 15 52%
Philosophy 3 10%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Sports and Recreations 1 3%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 6 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 November 2016.
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#13,131,140
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#162,132
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#262
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