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August 19, 2025Scientific ReportsOpen Access

Social learning leads to inflexible strategy use in children across three societies

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WVWilson Filipe da Silva VieiraSPSarah Pope‐CaldwellADArdain Dzabatou

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Overview

Observational analysis reveals social learning reduces elective flexibility in children across multiple cultures, suggesting cultural contexts influence problem-solving abilities.

Key Points

  • Overall, German children showed higher elective flexibility compared to their Congolese peers, indicating cultural impact on learning.
  • Congolese children's elective flexibility declined with age, highlighting a potential developmental trend due to cultural factors.
  • A four-task battery assessment revealed that children learned strategies less flexibly when using social information than asocial sources.
  • These findings underline the need to understand eco-cultural influences on children's adaptive problem-solving abilities.

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Vieira et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af35e9cf1dd9ea359ea44fhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-15400-2
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