The role of attraction in cultural evolution

By Nicolas Claidière, Dan Sperber. 2007

153 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Demography, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/86f992f1aa908ed1b62e1bda1d7538b90ea2a9d3

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In Cultural Studies

1. Hugo Mercier
2. Helena Miton
3. Nicolas Claidière
4. Alex Mesoudi
5. Christine A. Caldwell
6. Ailsa E. Millen

In Demography

1. Alex Mesoudi
2. Hugo Mercier

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Hugo Mercier
2. Helena Miton
3. Nicolas Claidière
4. Alex Mesoudi
5. Christine A. Caldwell
6. Ailsa E. Millen

Citations in the corpus

• Universal cognitive mechanisms explain the cultural success of bloodletting (2015, background): “This technique reveals what elements of a story participants are most likely to remember, as well as how they transform the elements of the story, two operations that need not involve explicit beliefs about the efficacy of bloodletting.”
• Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies (2015, background): “This difference has inspired some researchers to suggest an alternative framework for modelling and understanding cultural change, one based on ‘cultural attraction’ (Claidière et al. 2014; Claidière and Sperber 2007; Sperber 1996).”