Preference uncertainty accounts for developmental effects on susceptibility to peer influence in adolescence

People often change their preferences to conform with others. Using a longitudinal design, the authors show that such conformity decreases over the course of adolescence and that this reduction in conformity is accompanied by a decreasing degree of uncertainty about what to like.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrea M. F. Reiter, Michael Moutoussis, Lucy Vanes, Rogier Kievit, Edward T. Bullmore, Ian M. Goodyer, Peter Fonagy, Peter B. Jones, NSPN Consortium, Raymond J. Dolan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23671-2