Adolescence is associated with heightened social influence, especially from peers. This can lead to detrimental decision-making in domains such as risky behavior but may also raise opportunities for prosocial behavior. We used an incentivized charitable-donations task to investigate how people revise decisions after learning about the donations of others and how this is affected by age (N = 220; age range = 11–35 years). Our results showed that the probability of social influence decreased with age within this age range. In addition, whereas previous research has suggested that adults are more likely to conform to the behavior of selfish others than to the behavior of prosocial others, here we observed no evidence of such an asymmetry in midadolescents. We discuss possible interpretations of these findings in relation to the social context of the task, the perceived value of money, and social decision-making across development.

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青少年和年轻人的亲社会影响和机会主义从众

青春期与更高的社会影响力有关，尤其是来自同龄人的影响力。这可能导致危险行为等领域的有害决策，但也可能增加亲社会行为的机会。我们使用了一项激励性慈善捐赠任务来调查人们在了解他人捐赠后如何修改决定以及这如何受年龄影响（N = 220；年龄范围 = 11-35 岁）。我们的结果表明，在这个年龄范围内，社会影响的概率随着年龄的增长而下降。此外，虽然之前的研究表明成年人更可能顺从自私他人的行为，而不是顺从亲社会他人的行为，但在这里我们没有观察到青春期存在这种不对称性的证据。