An experimental simulation of the “copy-successful-individuals” cultural learning strategy: adaptive landscapes, producer–scrounger dynamics, and informational access costs

By Alex Mesoudi. 2008

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Innovation and cultural transmission in the American Paleolithic: Phylogenetic analysis of eastern Paleoindian projectile-point classes (2014, background): “However, if ecological conditions change faster, social learning may favor individual trial and error or even a combination of the two (Mesoudi, 2008; Toelch et al., 2009).”
Cultural Adaptations to Environmental Variability: An Evolutionary Account of East–West Differences (2011, background): “Humans and other animals switch between individual and social learning depending on environmental change (Kameda and Nakanishi 2003; Mesoudi 2008).”
The age of exploration and exploitation: Younger-looking leaders endorsed for change and older-looking leaders endorsed for stability (2014, background): “This formof leadership benefits the groupby taking advantage of acquired knowledge andbest practices storedwithin an experienced leader that can be transmitted via social learning (e.g., “copy-successful-individuals”; Mesoudi, 2008).”
Universal cognitive mechanisms explain the cultural success of bloodletting (2015, methodology): “To further evaluate the role of universal cognitive mechanisms in the attractiveness of bloodletting, we conducted a series of experiments with U.S. participants.”
An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused (2011, methodology): “Previous experimental studies using the virtual arrowhead task have partially supported the predictions outlined above concerning the adaptiveness of social learning, showing that payoff-biased social learning is both willingly adopted by a majority of participants in preference to individual learni”
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An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation (2014, background): “& Mesoudi, A. (2014) An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation.”
Cultural Niche Construction: An Introduction (2011, background): “…of smart variants, allowing naive individuals to shortcut the many iterations of ontogenetic selection necessary to learn for themselves behavioral patterns appropriate to their environment and thus leapfrog to the functional and already-tested solutions established by others (Mesoudi 2008).”