scispace - formally typeset
K

Kate Ellis-Davies

Researcher at Nottingham Trent University

Publications -  13
Citations -  351

Kate Ellis-Davies is an academic researcher from Nottingham Trent University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Imitation & Subsistence agriculture. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 10 publications receiving 241 citations. Previous affiliations of Kate Ellis-Davies include University of Cambridge & Cardiff University.

Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

How Do Hunter-Gatherer Children Learn Subsistence Skills? : A Meta-Ethnographic Review.

TL;DR: The results show that teaching does indeed exist in hunter-gatherer societies, and support predictive models that find social learning should occur before individual learning.
Journal ArticleDOI

How do hunter-gatherer children learn social and gender norms? A meta-ethnographic review

TL;DR: Forager societies tend to value egalitarianism, cooperative autonomy, and sharing, and foragers exhibit a strong gendered division of labor as mentioned in this paper, however, few studies have employed a cross-cultural approach to understand how forager children learn social and gender norms.
Journal ArticleDOI

Selective and faithful imitation at 12 and 15 months

TL;DR: The observed relation between extraversion and faithful imitation supports the hypothesis that faithful imitation is driven by the social motivations of the infant, and is called the King Louie Effect: like the orangutan King Louie in The Jungle Book, infants imitate faithfully due to a growing interest in the interpersonal nature of interactions.
Journal ArticleDOI

CUE: The continuous unified electronic diary method

TL;DR: The CUE diary method is shown to be a reliable methodological tool for studying processes of change in human development and to detect behaviors earlier and with greater sensitivity to individual differences.