Content biases in the cultural transmission and evolution of urban legends
This thesis examines the role of cognitive content biases in cultural transmission. The concept of cognitive content biases suggests that humans preferentially attend to, recall and transmit certain types of information over others, and that this bias influences the transmission and evolution of cul...
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Durham University
2014
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620804 |