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 | |
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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) |