The shortlist effect: nestedness contributions as a tool to explain cultural success

Detecting the forces behind the success or failure of cultural products, such as books or films, remains a challenge. Three such forces are drift, context-biased selection and selection based on content – when things succeed because of their intrinsic appeal. We propose a tool to study content-biase...

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Published in:	Evolutionary Human Sciences
Main Authors:	Olivier Morin, Oleg Sobchuk
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2021-01-01
Subjects:	Cultural nestedness nestedness contribution content-biased selection cultural evolution cultural drift cultural selection movies
Online Access:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X21000487/type/journal_article