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Ida Selbing; Nina Becker; Yafeng Pan; Björn Lindström; Andreas Olsson – npj Science of Learning, 2025
Observational learning enables us to make decisions by watching others' behaviors. The quality of such learning depends on the abilities of those we observe, but also on our beliefs about those abilities. We have previously demonstrated that observers learned better from demonstrators described as high vs. low in ability, regardless of their…
Descriptors: Observational Learning, Behavior, Learning Processes, Metacognition