Whom do children copy? Model-based biases in social learning

By Lara A. Wood, Rachel L. Kendal, Emma Flynn. 2013

150 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This review investigates the presence of young children’s model-based cultural transmission biases in social learning, arguing that such biases are adaptive and flexible. Section 1 offers five propositions regarding the presence and direction of model-based transmission biases in young children’s copying of a model. Section 2 discusses the cognitive abilities required for differing model-based biases and tracks their development in early childhood. Section 3 suggests future areas of research including considering the social aspect of model-based biases and understanding their use within a comparative perspective.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/123c37a2a53621fa3d63f871dd79db9f5ecdc0d1

Citations in the corpus

• The when and who of social learning and conformist transmission (2016, unknown): “…(2005), Efferson, Lalive, Richerson, McElreath, and Lubell (2008), and Morgan, Rendell, Ehn, Hoppitt, and Laland (2012) and with children include Wood, Kendal, and Flynn (2013), Haun, Rekers, and Tomasello (2012), Chudek, Brosseau‐Liard, Birch, and Henrich (2013), and Morgan, Laland, and Harris…”