Picky preschoolers: Young children prefer majority opinion
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 09:52
in Psychology & Sociology
When we are faced with a decision, and we're not sure what to do, usually we'll just go with the majority opinion. When do we begin adopting this strategy of 'following the crowd?' In a new report in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists Kathleen H. Corriveau, Maria Fusaro, and Paul L. Harris of Harvard University describe experiments suggesting that this tendency starts very early on, around preschool age...
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