The Developmental Roots of Conformity Bias - Marginal REVOLUTION
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The enforcement of conformity is so important for young children that 5-year-olds have more positive feelings toward a norm enforcer (even though he is acting aggressively) than they do toward someone who simply lets a norm violation go (even though he is behaving in a neutral manner; Vaish, Herrmann, Markmann, & Tomasello, 2016).
Yet more reason to shed the evolutionary baggage ASAP.
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