Cultural transmission and the diffusion of innovations : adoption dynamics indicate that biased cultural transmission is the predominate force in behavioral change and much of sociocultural evolution

By Joseph Henrich. 2001

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies (2015, background): “Similar observations can be made for technology, such as the replacement of traditional seed corn with hybrid seed corn in Iowa during the 1940s (Henrich 2001; Ryan and Gross 1943), or any number of other well-documented examples of the diffusion of innovations (Rogers 1995) and changing…”
Social learning strategies (2004, background): “…with the proportion of demonstrators occurs in guppies (Lachlan, Crooks, & Laland, 1998; Laland & Williams, 1997; Sugita, 1980), rats (Beck & Galef, 1989; Chou & Richerson, 1992), pigeons (Lefebvre & Giraldeau, 1994), and humans (see Boyd & Richerson, 1985, and Henrich, 2001, for reviews).”
Individual and cultural learning in stag hunt games with multiple actions (2010, background): “Henrich (2001), in surveying evidence on the adoption of innovations, finds S-shaped adoption curves to be prevalent.”
Field versus Farm in Warangal: Bt Cotton, Higher Yields, and Larger Questions (2011, background): “14 Drawing on work by behavioral ecologists (Boyd & Richerson, 1985; Henrich, 2001; McElreath, 2004), it is helpful to distinguish between environmental learning, which is based on evaluations of payoffs from various practices, and social learning, in which adoption decisions are based on imitation.”
Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying (2007, methodology): “…makes more sense to assume that cost–benefit decisions are made independently, with conformity potentially among the biases in making those decisions (e.g., Boyd & Richerson, 1985, 2005; Gintis, in press; Henrich, 2001, 2004; Henrich & Boyd, 2001; McElreath, Boyd, & Richerson, 2003; Shennan, 2002).”
Why people punish defectors. Weak conformist transmission can stabilize costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas. (2001, background): “Equation (1) gives the change in the frequency of stage 1 cooperators as a consequence of pay-o! biased and conformist transmission (see Henrich, 1999).”
Using the methods of experimental social psychology to study cultural evolution. (2007, unknown): “…archaeological (Henrich, 2004; Kohler & Gumerman, 2000; Neiman, 1995; Shennan & Wilkinson, 2001) and sociological (Bentley, Hahn, & Shennan, 2004; Henrich, 2001) patterns of cultural change and variation, as well as cultural change more generally (Boyd & Richerson, 1985; Cavalli-Sforza &…”
Innovation and cultural transmission in the American Paleolithic: Phylogenetic analysis of eastern Paleoindian projectile-point classes (2014, background): “This conclusion is consistent with the proposal by Hamilton (2008) and Hamilton and Buchanan (2009) that Clovis point shape was a product of strong biased transmission (e.g., Boyd and Richerson, 1985; Henrich, 2001) as opposed to individual learning and guided variation (see below).”
Cultural evolution in laboratory microsocieties including traditions of rule giving and rule following (2004, background): “These results agree with Henrich’s (in press) contention that maintaining complex cultural traits in a population depends on rare gifted innovators. Perhaps if participants were drawn from courses in economics or engineering, rather than psychology, results would differ. In summary, the methods desc”