Conformity to cultural norms of tool use in chimpanzees

By Andrew Whiten, V. Horner, F. D. de Waal. Nature, 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Developmental Biology, Social Psychology

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Emulation, imitation, over-imitation and the scope of culture for child and chimpanzee (2009, methodology): “The 'one innovator, 30þ social learners' of our panpipes studies (Whiten et al. 2005a; Hopper et al. 2007) serves as one apt illustration of the zone conducive to the emergence of traditions (Zone 2) hypothesized in figure 3.”
One cultural parent makes no culture (2010, background): “For instance, conformity can maintain the stability of transmission of common cultural traits (Whiten et al. 2005), but this process, by definition, requires individual to monitor multiple models, rather than learn from a single parent.”
Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission (2008, background): “Classic research in social psychology (Aronson, Wilson, & Akert, 2002; Asch, 1955, 1956), neuroscience experiments (Berns et al., 2005) in the tradition of Asch, and recent experiments with chimpanzees ( Whiten, Horner, & de Waal, 2005 ) show that a focal individual is more likely to adopt a behavio”
‘Conformity’ in Norway rats? (2008, background): “However, regardless of how the results of the Whiten et al. (2005) experiment are interpreted, the claim of Whiten & van Schaik (2007) that chimpanzees and humans are unique in their reliance on socially acquired information despite individually acquired contradictory information goes beyond these…”
The impact of imitative versus emulative learning mechanisms on artifactual variation: implications for the evolution of material culture (2015, result): “Such studies lend support to the notion that social learning processes 43 lead to the perpetuation of separate stable behavioral ‗traditions‘ over the course of long-term 44 cultural transmission in wild populations (Whiten et al., 2005, 2009b).”
Cultural differences in army ant predation by West African chimpanzees? A comparative study of microecological variables (2008, methodology): “…chimpanzees on social transmission of a technique used to retrieve food from a box has shown that individuals who had accidentally invented a new technique did not pursue this one but rather went back to using the socially dominant method originally introduced into their group (Whiten et al. 2005).”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, methodology): “Whiten et al. (2005) have recently employed a more experimental approach to studying the spread of alternative foraging techniques in different groups, creating the potential to track diffusion dynamics more reliably.”
Experimental studies of traditions and underlying transmission processes in chimpanzees (2007, methodology): “…ghost condition used in this study lead to the conclusion that those chimpanzees who used the Lift technique significantly, both in the present study and in that of Whiten et al. (2005), were influenced crucially by the model’s actions, and not simply by the movements of the apparatus, as Figure 5.”
Experimental evidence for social transmission of food acquisition techniques in wild meerkats (2009, methodology): “2003; Lonsdorf 2006), laboratory experiments have found that juvenile and adult chimpanzees are equally likely to learn socially (Whiten et al. 2005).”