What makes children defy majorities? The role of dissenters in Chinese and Spanish preschoolers’ social judgments.

When many people say the same thing, the individual is more likely to endorse this information than when just a single person says the same. Yet, the influence of consensus information may be modulated by many personal, contextual and cultural variables. Here, we study the sensitivity of Chinese (...

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Main Authors: Ileana Enesco, Carla Sebastián-Enesco, Silvia Guerrero, Siyu Quan, Sonia Garijo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01695/full