Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission
By Charles Efferson, Rafael Lalive, Peter J. Richerson, R. Mcelreath, Mark Lubell. 2008
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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science
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- An experimental simulation of the “copy-successful-individuals” cultural learning strategy: adaptive landscapes, producer–scrounger dynamics, and informational access costs (2008, methodology): “Previous cultural evolution experiments (e.g., Kameda & Nakanishi, 2002, 2003; McElreath et al., 2005; Efferson et al., 2008 ) have used relatively simple dichotomous cultural traits (e.g., which of two crops to plant), one of which has higher fitness than the other.”
- Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2012, unknown): “Parallel reasoning and some evidence indicates that learners use cues of health, ethnic markers (dialect, dress, etc.), sex, and age in figuring out who to learn from (McElreath et al. 2003; Efferson et al. 2008; McElreath et al. 2008).”
- An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused (2011, result): “The finding that only a minority of learners consistently engaged in payoff-biased social learning (or social learning of any kind) replicates previous experimental findings related to conformity (Efferson et al., 2008; McElreath et al., 2005).”
- The when and who of social learning and conformist transmission (2016, unknown): “Consistent with past empirical research (Efferson et al., 2008; McElreath et al., 2005; Morgan et al., 2012), we found evidence of substantial individual variation in social learning and social learning strategies .”