Adult Learners in a Novel Environment Use Prestige-Biased Social Learning
Social learning (learning from others) is evolutionarily adaptive under a wide range of conditions and is a long-standing area of interest across the social and biological sciences. One social-learning mechanism derived from cultural evolutionary theory is prestige bias, which allows a learner in a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2012-07-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491201000309 |