Abstract
Group membership shapes how we interact with others. Individuals tend to conform more to ingroup members than to outgroup members. In PNAS, Lin et al. report an intergroup conformity neural network that tracked the social influence of ingroup over outgroup members. However, we question the researchers’ interpretation of the findings.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4758-4759 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| Early online date | 19 Feb 2019 |
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| Publication status | Published - 12 Mar 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Article Type: LettersFunding
We acknowledge the correspondence from Lin et al. (3) that helped to clarify this Letter, including the addition of Fig. 1C. This work was supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education Tier 2 Grant MOE2016-T2-1-015, the Social Science Research Thematic Grant MOE2017-SSRTG-026, and the Singapore National Medical Research Council Grant OFYIRG17may052 (to R.Y.).