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Does the majority always know best? Young children's flexible trust in majority opinion (2014)
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Einav, S. (2014). Does the majority always know best? Young children's flexible trust in majority opinion. PLoS ONE, 9(8), Article e104585. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104585

Copying the majority is generally an adaptive social learning strategy but the majority does not always know best. Previous work has demonstrated young children's selective uptake of information from a consensus over a lone dissenter. The current stu... Read More about Does the majority always know best? Young children's flexible trust in majority opinion.