Social learning strategies

By Kevin N. Laland. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Imitating Interactive Intelligence (2020, background): “Social learning, imitation, and mimicry are found throughout the animal kingdom (Heyes and Galef Jr, 1996; Laland, 2004; Byrne, 2009), and human infants are intrinsically motivated to imitate.”
Investigating the Mechanisms of Cultural Acquisition How Pervasive is Overimitation in Adults (2012, background): “By examining these results in the light of evidence from social learning strategies (see Laland, 2004 for a review) we can see a number of possible explanations for why adults might consistently overimitate, and indeed why overimitation might generally be rational and/or adaptive.”
Trade‐Offs in the Adaptive Use of Social and Asocial Learning (2005, background): “In order for the use of social learning to be adaptive, individuals must use social learning selectively and engage in the collection of accurate personal information some of the time (Galef, 1995; Laland, 2004).”
Innovation and cultural transmission in the American Paleolithic: Phylogenetic analysis of eastern Paleoindian projectile-point classes (2014, background): “Biased transmission, of whatever form (Laland, 2004; Mesoudi, 2011), is an important process in human learning (Henrich, 2001).”
Emergent Social Learning via Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (2020, neutral): “Humans and animals are most likely to rely on social learning when individual learning is difficult or unsafe (Henrich & McElreath, 2003; Laland, 2004).”
Experimental studies of traditions and underlying transmission processes in chimpanzees (2007, background): “’s (2005) study together offer a new and mutually consistent picture of the ways in which social and asocial learning are strategically applied by chimpanzees to tasks that differ in ease of learning (Laland 2004; Whiten et al. 2004).”
Who teaches children to forage? Exploring the primacy of child-to-child teaching among Hadza and BaYaka Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania and Congo (2020, background): “Researchers working with highly stratified cultures have found collaboration to enhance children's knowledge acquisition in experimental settings (Dean, Kendal, Schapiro, Thierry, & Laland, 2012; Dunn, 1983; Laland, 2004; Tomasello, 1999; Tomasello et al., 1993; Wood, Wood, Ainsworth, & Malley, 1995”
Experimental models for testing hypotheses about cumulative cultural evolution (2008, background): “Laland (2004) has suggested that CCE may instead depend on an ability to appraise the relative effectiveness of behavioural alternatives, and that this could be beyond the capabilities of nonhumans.”
Information and its use by animals in evolutionary ecology. (2005, background): “Indeed, a growing body of evidence suggests that animals use specific strategies for allocating effort between socially acquired and personal information, particularly when they cannot be used simultaneously [ 21 ].”
“I Know Things They Don’t Know!”: The Role of Need for Uniqueness in Belief in Conspiracy Theories (2017, background): “Indeed, one could expect that people who feel uncertain prefer to conform to others rather than to seek differentiation (e.g., copy-whenuncertain strategy, Laland, 2004).”
Developmental evidence for foraging traditions in wild bottlenose dolphins (2009, background): “Together, these patterns of foraging development may reflect ‘when’ and ‘who’ strategies of social learning (Laland 2004), explaining the mixture of individually and socially learned foraging tactics used by individuals and providing the framework for the functional benefits of social learning.”
Personality affects learning and trade-offs between private and social information in guppies, Poecilia reticulata (2014, background): “The extent to which social learning is beneficial is dependent on the number of asocial learners in the population that directly sample the environment and hence the quality of the transmitted information (Giraldeau, Valone, & Templeton, 2002; Laland, 2004).”
Imitative and Direct Learning as Interacting Factors in Life History Evolution (2017, neutral): “Mathematical models involving both individual and social learning already exist, such as in the study of the evolution of between-group differences by Henrich and Boyd [38] and the investigation of cumulative cultural learning by Ehm and Laland [26], so the vital issues are understood.”
Sociable schedules: interplay between avian seasonal and social behaviour (2006, background): “Activities, such as staging at a given site, may simply be copied as a shortcut to seasonally correct behaviour without costly trial-and-error learning, but at risk of communal mistakes (Cavalli-Sforza & Feldmann 1981; Wagner & Danchin 2003; Laland 2004).”
A Bayesian approach to the evolution of social learning (2012, background): “Other authors have complained that much of the theoretical literature has assumed that social learning and individual learning are alternatives competing for determination of phenotype when in fact they are usually complementary processes that lead individuals in the same direction (Laland, 2004).”