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Charles Efferson

Researcher at University of Lausanne

Publications -  51
Citations -  5440

Charles Efferson is an academic researcher from University of Lausanne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social learning & Conformity. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 45 publications receiving 4439 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles Efferson include University of Zurich & University of California, Davis.

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Redefine statistical significance

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TL;DR: The default P-value threshold for statistical significance is proposed to be changed from 0.05 to 0.005 for claims of new discoveries in order to reduce uncertainty in the number of discoveries.
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Redefine Statistical Significance

TL;DR: This article proposed to change the default P-value threshold for statistical significance for claims of new discoveries from 0.05 to 0.005, which is the threshold used in this paper.
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The Coevolution of Cultural Groups and Ingroup Favoritism

TL;DR: The results support the prominent evolutionary hypothesis that cultural processes can reshape the selective pressures facing individuals and so favor the evolution of behavioral traits not previously advantaged.
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Other-regarding preferences in a non-human primate: Common marmosets provision food altruistically

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that common marmoset monkeys (Callithrix jacchus) do spontaneously provide food to nonreciprocating and genetically unrelated individuals, indicating that other-regarding preferences are not unique to humans and that their evolution did not require advanced cognitive abilities such as theory of mind.
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Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission

TL;DR: This article conducted an experiment to see if players were conformists by separating individual and social learners and found that a subset of social learners behaved according to a classic model of conformity, while the remaining social learners did not respond to frequency information.