Does social/cultural learning increase human adaptability?: Rogers's question revisited

By Tatsuya Kameda, Daisuke Nakanishi. 2003

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Using the methods of experimental social psychology to study cultural evolution. (2007, background): “A follow-up study (Kameda & Nakanishi, 2003) found that groups in which social learning was permitted outperformed groups in which only individual learning was allowed, suggesting that social learning is adaptive when individuals can selectively switch between individual and social learning.”
Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution (2015, background): “Of the latter, one study [10] found that Japanese participants successfully avoided maladaptive producer–scrounger dynamics through their use of social learning, although the study did not test whether the level of social learning was optimal.”
Cultural Adaptations to Environmental Variability: An Evolutionary Account of East–West Differences (2011, background): “Humans and other animals switch between individual and social learning depending on environmental change (Kameda and Nakanishi 2003; Mesoudi 2008).”
A Bayesian approach to the evolution of social learning (2012, background): “There has been much interest in understanding the evolution of social learning (Boyd & Richerson, 1985; Cavalli-Sforza & Feldman, 1981; Kameda & Nakanishi, 2003; McElreath & Strimling, 2008; Rendell, Fogarty et al., 2010; Rogers, 1988; Whiten et al., 2001).”
An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused (2011, methodology): “While previous experimental studies (e.g. Kameda & Nakanishi, 2002, 2003; McElreath et al., 2005) have typically used a rather artificial and highly simplified task with a single dichotomous choice (e.g., plant one of two kinds of crops or locate a rabbit in one of two places), the present study…”
An experimental simulation of the “copy-successful-individuals” cultural learning strategy: adaptive landscapes, producer–scrounger dynamics, and informational access costs (2008, methodology): “…simulation of cultural (especially technological) evolution compared with previous cultural evolution experiments (e.g., Efferson et al., 2008; Kameda & Nakanishi 2002, 2003; McElreath et al., 2005), which employ a relatively simple task featuring a single dichotomous attribute (e.g., which…”
Psychological universals: what are they and how can we know? (2005, background): “…selected psychological adaptations that are incomplete without culture-specific instantiation and coordination, which are mutually complementary and mutually necessary for psychological functioning (D. Cohen, 2001; Fiske, 2000; Kameda & Nakanishi , 2003; Nisbett & Norenzayan, 2002; Rozin, 2001).”
The robust beauty of majority rules in group decisions. (2005, background): “What happens to group performance if we add individual information search and voting costs to the social decision system (Kameda & Nakanishi, 2002, 2003; Kameda, Takezawa, & Hastie, 2003)?”