[EXVO 1 & 3] Group structure and strategies when disagreeing
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: In three completed studies, we investigated how children reason about disagreement in groups. In the first study, we found that 6-8-year old children expected others to speak up, regardless of how a group is structured. In the second study, we found that children think that speaking up is more likely to affect change in egalitarian groups than in hierarchical groups. In the third study, we found that children were sensitive to group dynamics when given evidence that speaking up did not work to change people’s minds. After the completion of these three studies, we consulted with a stats expert to review our analyses, where it was suggested that we include shrinking priors in our Bayesian models. Through this process, we also found that we did not have sufficient data to draw strong conclusions in our models. Because of this, we decided to run a replication of studies 1 and 3 to address the lack of power, as well as to pre-register the suggested analyses.
Authors: Mack Briscoe, Ashley J. Thomas
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204058371