Yeah, this isn't The Onion, bro, this is a real science news source. I actually might be almost serious:
A Yale study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that children imitate the actions of adults who have proven to be untrustworthy, even to the point of excluding obvious solutions to problems.
The effect, called 'over-imitation,' is so powerful that chimpanzees will often solve a given problem more quickly than will a child under its influence.
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