Do Online Voting Patterns Reflect Evolved Features of Human Cognition? An Exploratory Empirical Investigation (2015)
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Priestley, M., & Mesoudi, A. (2015). Do Online Voting Patterns Reflect Evolved Features of Human Cognition? An Exploratory Empirical Investigation. PLoS ONE, 10(6), Article e0129703. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129703

Online votes or ratings can assist internet users in evaluating the credibility and appeal of the information which they encounter. For example, aggregator websites such as Reddit allow users to up-vote submitted content to make it more prominent, an... Read More about Do Online Voting Patterns Reflect Evolved Features of Human Cognition? An Exploratory Empirical Investigation.

Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution (2015)
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Mesoudi, A., Chang, L., Murray, K., & Lu, H. (2015). Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1798), Article 20142209. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2209

Cultural evolutionary models have identified a range of conditions under which social learning (copying others) is predicted to be adaptive relative to asocial learning (learning on one's own), particularly in humans where socially learned informatio... Read More about Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution.