Prestige-biased cultural learning: bystander's differential attention to potential models influences children's learning

By Maciej Chudek, Sarah-Grace Heller, Susan A J Birch, Joseph Henrich. 2012

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Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2012, unknown): “Theory suggests, and a wide range of empirical findings have confirmed, that both children and adults preferentially pay attention to and learn from models who are more skillful, competent, successful or prestigious (Hirschman 1982; Henrich and Henrich 2007; Birch et al. 2008; Nurmsoo and Robinson 2”
Toward a Unified Science of Hierarchy: Dominance and Prestige are Two Fundamental Pathways to Human Social Rank (2014, background): “Similarly, 3-and 4-year-old children make inferences of Prestige on the basis of bystanders' visual attention to potential models (a Prestige cue), and subsequently choose to learn from the most apparently Prestigious models (Chudek et al. 2012).”
Culture and social behavior (2015, background): “The hypothesized cultural learning mechanisms can, and have been, empirically tested in both the laboratory and field, in infants, children and adults from diverse societies [54,58–63].”