title: Keeping conceptual boundaries distinct between decision making and learning is necessary to understand social influence.
abstract: Bentley et al. make the deliberate choice to blur the distinction between learning and decision making. This obscures the social influence mechanisms that operate in the various empirical settings that their map aims to categorize. Useful policy prescriptions, however, require an accurate understanding of the social influence mechanisms that underlie the dynamics of popularity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08005 Barcelona, Spain. gael.le-mens@upf.edu http://www.econ.upf.edu/~glemens/
authors.forename: Gaël
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Le Mens
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D012919:Social Behavior; D060756:Social Networking