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. 2020 Jul 21;10:12095. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-68982-4

Table 1.

Information available to participants when choosing to copy in each round and condition.

Control Prestige Success
Round 1 information provided when choosing to copy (first 40 Questions): Player IDs of the demonstrators (irrelevant cue) Scores of the demonstrators so far (success cue) Scores of the demonstrators so far (success cue)
Round 2 choice of information when choosing to copy (final 60 Questions): Either the player IDs of the demonstrators (irrelevant cue) OR the number of times the demonstrators were copied in Round 1 of this condition (unreliable prestige cue) Either the player IDs of the demonstrators (irrelevant cue) OR the number of times the demonstrators were copied in Round 1 of this condition (reliable prestige cue) Either the scores of the demonstrators from Round 1 of this condition (success cue) OR the number of times the demonstrators were copied in Round 1 of this condition (reliable prestige cue)