Children imitate only intentional actions. They try to reproduce what the actor wanted to do - not just the action itself.

Children not only imitate, they overimitate.

Children seem to assume that other people are out to teach them important things about the world unless they get direct evidence to the contrary.

People assume that if everyone else is going along with something, their own reservation is silly or misinformed, and they don’t want to look stupid in front of the group. Remember, this groupthink isn’t an individual failure; this is a human failure. In the literature this effect has been explained as an “informational cascade.” As Sushil

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