Impact of Social Information
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This podcast looks at how we unconsciously respond to social information. Lucas Molleman, Ph.D., who is currently at the University of Amsterdam, and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development published a paper in 2020 on what happens when we are presented with information that is inconsistent or even contradictory to our expectations.
In their paper, Lucas and his team set up a very simple experiment to test whether a participant would change their guesstimate of how many animals they saw on a computer screen depending on how similar their peers’ guesses, on those numbers of animals, were to theirs.
And then using computer modeling, the team was able to then test the effects of a wide range of situations where peer responses were both very similar and quite different from the participants guesses.
In this podcast, we will talk with Lucas on what results they found to each these situations. This research provides an interesting insight into the ways that social information, that we are exposed to, can affect our thinking, and ultimately the maps that we use to understand the world around us. Thomas May will also join us for a great summary chat at the end. For more information on Lucas Molleman, Ph.D. see https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/staff/lucas-molleman.
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