Impact of Social Information
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This podcast looks at how we unconsciously respond to social information.\\xa0 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.\\xa0
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\\u2019 guesses, on those numbers of animals, were to theirs.\\xa0
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.\\xa0
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. \\xa0 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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