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dc.contributor.authorCross, Catharine P.
dc.contributor.authorBrown, Gillian R.
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, Thomas J. H.
dc.contributor.authorLaland, Kevin N.
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-16T09:30:08Z
dc.date.available2017-11-16T09:30:08Z
dc.date.issued2017-11
dc.identifier246781015
dc.identifier3e5160b9-99bc-4939-a32f-7714bdd8704f
dc.identifier85000450759
dc.identifier000412284500001
dc.identifier.citationCross , C P , Brown , G R , Morgan , T J H & Laland , K N 2017 , ' Sex differences in confidence influence patterns of conformity ' , British Journal of Psychology , vol. 108 , no. 4 , pp. 655-667 . https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12232en
dc.identifier.issn0007-1269
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-0675-0780/work/60195734
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-8110-8408/work/60427417
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-2457-0900/work/60630327
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/12109
dc.descriptionThe research was supported in part by an ERC Advanced Grant (EVOCULTURE, Ref.232823) awarded to KNL.en
dc.description.abstractLack of confidence in one's own ability can increase the likelihood of relying on social information. Sex differences in confidence have been extensively investigated in cognitive tasks, but implications for conformity have not been directly tested. Here, we tested the hypothesis that, in a task that shows sex differences in confidence, an indirect effect of sex on social information use will also be evident. Participants (N = 168) were administered a mental rotation (MR) task or a letter transformation (LT) task. After providing an answer, participants reported their confidence before seeing the responses of demonstrators and being allowed to change their initial answer. In the MR, but not the LT, task, women showed lower levels of confidence than men, and confidence mediated an indirect effect of sex on the likelihood of switching answers. These results provide novel, experimental evidence that confidence is a general explanatory mechanism underpinning susceptibility to social influences. Our results have implications for the interpretation of the wider literature on sex differences in conformity.
dc.format.extent580871
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofBritish Journal of Psychologyen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectSocial learningen
dc.subjectMental rotationen
dc.subjectLetter transformationen
dc.subjectGender stereotypeen
dc.subjectStereotype threaten
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleSex differences in confidence influence patterns of conformityen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/bjop.12232
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2017-11-11
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