Does the Majority Always Know Best? Young Children's Flexible Trust in Majority Opinion

Does the Majority Always Know Best? Young Children's Flexible Trust in Majority Opinion

Copying the majority is generally an adaptive social learning strategy but the majority does not always know best. Previous work has demonstrated young children's selective uptake of information from a consensus over a lone dissenter. The current study examined children's flexibility in following the majority: do they overextend their reliance on this heuristic to situations where the dissentin...

When does the majority rule? Preschoolers' trust in majority informants varies by task domain

In order to learn about the world, young children rely on information provided by social partners. Past research has shown children consider a variety of factors when learning from others, including consensus. Corriveau, Fusaro, and Harris (2009) found that in an object labeling task, children trust responses that receive majority support, and they concluded that children prefer members of a ma...

Majority-vote model on Opinion-Dependent Networks

Received Day Month Year Revised Day Month Year We study a nonequilibrium model with up-down symmetry and a noise parameter q known as majority-vote model of M.J. Oliveira 1992 on opinion-dependent network or Stauffer-Hohnisch-Pittnauer networks. By Monte Carlo simulations and finite-size scaling relations the critical exponents β/ν, γ/ν, and 1/ν and points qc and U * are obtained. After extensi...

Is Majority Rule the Best Election Method?

Majority Consensus and the Local Majority Rule

we only show one further result that emphasizes our point that understanding LMP is fundamental to understanding any generalization of this process. A simple generalization of the local majority process would allow vertex v to have some resistivity towards color switch. Formally, for a nonnegative integer kv, we de ne a kv-local majority rule for vertex v: ct+1 v = ( ctv if jfw 2 Nv : ctw = ctv...