Universal cognitive mechanisms explain the cultural success of bloodletting

By Helena Miton, Nicolas Claidière, Hugo Mercier. 2015

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Cultural Studies, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/48abd5fd4d511855debacd8df6c7eb0aa1540650

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Citations in the corpus

• How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science (2017, background): “T hi s ar tic le is in te nd ed so le ly fo r th e pe rs on al us e of th e in di vi du al us er an d is no t to be di ss em in at ed br oa dl y. intuitiveness: in the absence of relevant medical knowledge, people find bloodletting to be an intuitive cure (Miton et al., 2015).”
• When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings (2024, unknown): “Human cultural evolution shows that cultural traits sometimes evolve towards attractor states, i.e., content that invites convergence even with different starting points (Kalish et al., 2007; Miton et al., 2015; 2020; Buskell, 2017).”