Fig. 1.

Probability that children stick with their initial decision for the case of five versus five informants such that whether or not children stick is based on the initial information they gathered via observation of the displays (asocial information) and their sticking tendency. Children tend to stick with their initial decision across all trial ratios (i.e., irrespective of trial difficulty), although the tendency to stick is slightly lower on the more difficult (low dot ratio) trials. The tendency to stick sharply increases with age; the oldest children (7-y-olds) display a >80% chance of sticking (color-coding of the ages of 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 y is provided in Fig. 2). Reprinted with permission from ref. 17.