Cultural evolution in laboratory microsocieties including traditions of rule giving and rule following

By W. Baum, Peter J. Richerson, Charles Efferson, Brian M. Paciotti. 2004

113 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Cultural Studies

1. Alex Mesoudi
2. Christine A. Caldwell
3. Ailsa E. Millen
4. Kevin N. Laland
5. Andrew Whiten
6. R. Bentley
7. Matthew W. Hahn
8. Carl Philipp Lipo

In Social Psychology

1. Alex Mesoudi
2. Christine A. Caldwell
3. Ailsa E. Millen
4. Kevin N. Laland
5. Andrew Whiten
6. H. Herzog
7. Simon M. Reader
8. Lucy M. Aplin

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Alex Mesoudi
2. Christine A. Caldwell
3. Ailsa E. Millen
4. Andrew Whiten
5. Kevin N. Laland
6. R. Bentley
7. Matthew W. Hahn
8. Carl Philipp Lipo

Citations in the corpus

• Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying (2007, methodology): “As Baum, Richerson, Efferson, and Paciotti (2004, p. 306) point out, while there is a wealth of research on individual-level mechanisms of social learning, there is a need for more discussion by social scientists of how cultural traditions change over time at the population level.”
• Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “For example, Baum et al. (2004) studied the transmission of traditions using a task in which participants received financial rewards for solving anagrams.”
• Experimental models for testing hypotheses about cumulative cultural evolution (2008, background): “Keywords: Cultural evolution; Cultural transmission; Culture; Ratchet effect; Social learning”