Social Learning in Animals: Empirical Studies and Theoretical Models

By B. Galef, Kevin N. Laland. 2005

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

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Mechanisms of social cognition. (2012, background): “Gaining benefit by watching and interacting with conspecifics—and even other species—is widespread among animals, including humans (Galef & Laland 2005, Leadbeater & Chittka 2007).”
The evolution of teaching (2008, background): “Evidence for teaching under Caro & Hauser’s (1992) definition has been equivocal (Caro & Hauser 1992; Maestripieri 1995a; Rendell & Whitehead 2001; Galef et al. 2005), although this may be largely the result of the difficulties in providing support for all three criteria, rather than the absence of…”
Understanding variation in behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change: a conceptual overview (2013, background): “In social groups, individual responses are often influenced by the responses of others (Stamps 1991; Galef & Giraldeau 2001; Galef & Laland 2005).”
An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused (2011, background): “Social learning is widespread in the animal kingdom (Galef & Laland, 2005) and especially pronounced in humans (Herrmann, Call, Hernandez-Lloreda, Hare & Tomasello, 2007; Horner & Whiten, 2005).”
Social network theory: new insights and issues for behavioral ecologists (2009, background): “For spread of information via social learning, relevant examples in animals (Galef and Laland 2005) might include song learning and tutoring (Smith et al. 2002; Beecher et al. 2007), mate copying (Godin et al. 2005; Valone 2007), learning of competitive styles (White et al. 2007), eavesdropping and…”
Risk-taking behaviour in foraging perch: does predation pressure influence age-specific boldness? (2008, background): “…Oers et al. 2004; Sundström et al. 2004), phenotypic response to the environment (Wilson et al. 1993), individual learning, either from conspecifics (Dugatkin & Alfieri 2003; Kelley et al. 2003; Galef & Laland 2005) or from early experience (Hilakiviclarke et al. 1991; Kelley & Magurran 2003a).”
A Bayesian approach to the evolution of social learning (2012, background): “Social learning has been observed in a wide range of other species in diverse taxa including mammals (Galef & Laland, 2005; Perry & Manson, 2003), birds (Benskin et al., 2002; Lefebvre, 2000), fish (Brown & Laland, 2003), and even invertebrates (Leadbeater & Chittka, 2007).”
Imitative and Direct Learning as Interacting Factors in Life History Evolution (2017, neutral): “imitation also takes place, though less commonly, in other species [6, 19, 24, 30, 47, 84, 88].”
Observational social learning and socially induced practice of routine skills in immature wild orang-utans (2016, background): “Evidence for nonobservational forms of social learning has been found in several fish, reptile, bird and mammal species, which suggests deep evolutionary roots (reviewed by Galef & Laland, 2005; Rapaport & Brown, 2008; Reader & Biro, 2010).”