Confident models and accurate imitation strengthen children’s normative judgments.

Evidence

However, the kids protested much more when they’d seen the confident model. … The kids who most accurately imitated the model themselves were more likely to react in protest. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 610

Categorization

• XREF: Confidence increasing norm internalization parallels prestige/content cues in the learning-biases framework from earlier chapters. — connects to: Small-scale societies lack norms dictating generosity to anonymous strangers. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 628; Children, unlike chimps, overimitate even when causality is transparent — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 362; Overimitation grows with the ability to model others’ minds — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 950 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Human children overimitate even when they see actions are useless #expands (0.75) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 943
• Overimitation grows with the ability to model others’ minds #corroborates (0.72) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 950