Table 1 Information available to participants when choosing to copy in each round and condition.

From: The emergence and adaptive use of prestige in an online social learning task

 

Control

Prestige

Success

Round 1 information provided when choosing to copy (first 40 Questions):

Player IDs of the demonstrators (irrelevant cue)

Scores of the demonstrators so far (success cue)

Scores of the demonstrators so far (success cue)

Round 2 choice of information when choosing to copy (final 60 Questions):

Either the player IDs of the demonstrators (irrelevant cue) OR the number of times the demonstrators were copied in Round 1 of this condition (unreliable prestige cue)

Either the player IDs of the demonstrators (irrelevant cue) OR the number of times the demonstrators were copied in Round 1 of this condition (reliable prestige cue)

Either the scores of the demonstrators from Round 1 of this condition (success cue) OR the number of times the demonstrators were copied in Round 1 of this condition (reliable prestige cue)