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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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Isolating a Culture of Son Preference Among Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri Parents in Soviet-Era Russia
Group Identities Make Fragile Tipping Points
Short Communication The subtleties of error management
Ryan McKay,Charles Efferson +1 more
TL;DR: Error management theory is a theory of considerable scope and emerging influence as discussed by the authors, but it is unclear that the cognitive biases that the theory seeks to defend are not simply a form of behavioral bias, in which case the theory reduces to a version of expected utility theory.
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Super-Additive Cooperation
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Leading with the (recently) successful? Performance visibility and the evolution of risk taking
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conduct a laboratory experiment to study whether imitation of the successful may occur even if imitation necessarily fails to be an effective way of improving one's performance, and they find that a substantial amount of imitation occurs, which in their setting leads to a sizeable and persistent increase of the average risk taken in the teams.