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Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies
Luke Rendell,Laurel Fogarty,William Hoppitt,Thomas J. H. Morgan,Mike M. Webster,Kevin N. Laland +5 more
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Research into social learning (learning from others) has expanded significantly in recent years, not least because of productive interactions between theoretical and empirical approaches, which places social learning within a cognitive decision-making framework.About:
This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2011-02-01. It has received 462 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social learning & Observational learning.read more
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Human mobility: Models and applications
Hugo Barbosa,Marc Barthelemy,Gourab Ghoshal,Charlotte R James,Maxime Lenormand,Thomas Louail,Ronaldo Menezes,José J. Ramasco,Filippo Simini,Marcello Tomasini +9 more
TL;DR: This survey reviews the approaches developed to reproduce various mobility patterns, with the main focus on recent developments, and organizes the subject by differentiating between individual and population mobility and also between short-range and long-range mobility.
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The cultural evolution of prosocial religions.
Ara Norenzayan,Azim F. Shariff,Will M. Gervais,Aiyana K. Willard,Rita Anne McNamara,Edward Slingerland,Joseph Henrich +6 more
TL;DR: It is explained how a package of culturally evolved religious beliefs and practices characterized by increasingly potent, moralizing, supernatural agents, credible displays of faith, and other psychologically active elements conducive to social solidarity promoted high fertility rates and large-scale cooperation with co-religionists, often contributing to success in intergroup competition and conflict.
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Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds
Lucy M. Aplin,Damien R. Farine,Julie Morand-Ferron,Andrew Cockburn,Alex Thornton,Ben C. Sheldon +5 more
TL;DR: In providing the first experimental demonstration of conformity in a wild non-primate, and of cultural norms in foraging techniques in any wild animal, the results suggest a much broader taxonomic occurrence of such an apparently complex cultural behaviour.
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Culture-gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality.
TL;DR: This work hypothesizes a norm-psychology: a suite of psychological adaptations for inferring, encoding in memory, adhering to, enforcing and redressing violations of the shared behavioral standards of one's community and outlines how this account organizes diverse empirical findings in the cognitive sciences and related disciplines.
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Mirror neurons: from origin to function
TL;DR: It is argued that mirror neurons are forged by domain-general processes of associative learning in the course of individual development, and, although they may have psychological functions, they do not necessarily have a specific evolutionary purpose or adaptive function.
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Joseph Henrich,Robert Boyd +1 more
TL;DR: The role of conformism is examined in a more general model in which environments vary in both time and space, indicating that conformist transmission is favored under a very broad range of conditions, broader in fact than therange of conditions that favor a substantial reliance on social learning.