Advice framed as social information holds greater causal influence than an identical non-social cue (a lottery wheel)¶
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q2 i? Replacing the virtual teacher with a lottery wheel produced a smaller reveal effect, suggesting socially framed advice exerts greater causal influence on compliance. → Maayan Pereg 2024
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Maayan Pereg 2024¶
Maayan Pereg, Uri Hertz, Ido Ben-Artzi and Nitzan Shahar. (2024). Disentangling the contribution of individual and social learning processes in human advice-taking behavior. npj Science of Learning 9:4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00214-0
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A non-social control version of the student-teacher task replaced the virtual teacher with a lottery wheel (reported in Supplementary Information); the reveal effect was smaller than in the social framing condition.
"The results indicated a smaller reveal effect in the non-social experiment (i.e., increased tendency to choose the advised card in trials where the advice was revealed vs. concealed)"
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Related Claims¶
- Simulated data show a double dissociation: early-trial reveal effects arise only from non-informed advice-taking, while outcome-dependent coherence repetition arises only from informed advice-taking — related
- Revealing a teacher's advice causally increases participants' tendency to choose the advised card in a reinforcement learning task — related
- Three weeks of sycophantic AI use narrows the gap in advice-seeking between AI and close friends and family — related
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Advice framed as social information holds greater causal influence than an identical non-social cue (a lottery wheel) |
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Advice framed as social information holds greater causal influence than an identical non-social cue (a lottery wheel) |
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