Apesteguia, J;
Huck, S;
Oechssler, J;
Weidenholzer, E;
Weidenholzer, S;
(2018)
Imitation of peers in children and adults.
Games
, 9
(1)
, Article 11. 10.3390/g9010011.
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Abstract
Imitation of the successful choices of others is a simple and superficially attractive learning rule. It has been shown to be an important driving force for the strategic behavior of (young) adults. In this study we examine whether imitation is prevalent in the behavior of children aged between 8 and 10. Surprisingly, we find that imitation seems to be cognitively demanding. Most children in this age group ignore information about others, foregoing substantial learning opportunities. While this seems to contradict much of the literature in the field of psychology, we argue that success-based imitation of peers may be harder for children to perform than non-success-based imitation of adults.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Imitation of peers in children and adults |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/g9010011 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/g9010011 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | children; imitation learning; success-based imitation; peer imitation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10068993 |
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