The Hierarchical Transformation of Event Knowledge in Human Cultural Transmission

By Alex Mesoudi, Andrew Whiten. 2004

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language (2008, methodology): “The first reported use of this methodology was Bartlett’s in 1932 (17), but it was not until recently that researchers began to apply this approach systematically (18-24).”
Universal cognitive mechanisms explain the cultural success of bloodletting (2015, background): “Modified sentence 1/ Bloodletting Yanobala goes to see the medicine man, who uses a sharp stone to cut Yanobala's temple and let some blood flow.”
Experimental models for testing hypotheses about cumulative cultural evolution (2008, methodology): “This method also has similarities with the transmission chain method, originally pioneered by Bartlett (1932) and more recently applied by Mesoudi (e.g., Mesoudi, 2007; Mesoudi & Whiten, 2004; Mesoudi, Whiten & Dunbar, 2006).”
Experimental studies of traditions and underlying transmission processes in chimpanzees (2007, background): “…the transmission of traditions in chimpanzees (Menzel et al. 1972), rats (Laland & Plotkin 1990), guppies, Poecilia reticulata (Laland & Williams 1997; Reader & Laland 2000), blackbirds, Turdus merula (Curio et al. 1978), pigeons, Columba livia (Lefebvre 1986) and humans (Mesoudi & Whiten 2004).”
Corpses, Maggots, Poodles and Rats: Emotional Selection Operating in Three Phases of Cultural Transmission of Urban Legends (2014, unknown): “As reviewed by Mesoudi and Whiten (2008), a provisional list of content biases includes a bias for stereotypeconsistent information (Bangerter, 2000; Kashima 2000), a bias for counter-intuitive concepts (Barrett and Nyhof, 2001), a bias for hierarchically organized information (Mesoudi and Whiten, 2”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, methodology): “Linear transmission chain studies such as those of Schotter and Sopher (2003) and Mesoudi and Whiten (2004) bear less similarity to the experimental paradigms of population genetics. Nevertheless, Schotter and Sopher’s (2003) study provides important data on the mode of cultural transmission (explic”
Using the methods of experimental social psychology to study cultural evolution. (2007, methodology): “Mesoudi and Whiten (2004) tested this hypothesis in the context of cultural transmission by passing descriptions of three everyday events (going to a restaurant, getting up, and going shopping) expressed entirely in terms of low-level actions along ten parallel chains each comprising four…”
Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies (2015, background): “We see variability in every tongue, and new words are continually cropping up; but as there is a limit to the powers of the memory, single words, like whole languages, gradually become extinct.”