Outputs (67)

Social tolerance and success-biased social learning underlies cultural transmission in a wild tool-using primate (2024)
Journal Article
Coelho, C., Garcia-Nisa, I., Ottoni, E., & Kendal, R. (2024). Social tolerance and success-biased social learning underlies cultural transmission in a wild tool-using primate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(48), Article e2322884121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2322884121

Significance
The influence of social tolerance in animal social learning has been scarcely investigated empirically. Social tolerance determines who is allowed in proximity to whom and granted access to resources such as food or social information.... Read More about Social tolerance and success-biased social learning underlies cultural transmission in a wild tool-using primate.

Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates. (2024)
Journal Article
Huang, P., Arlet, M. E., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Beisner, B. A., Bliss-Moreau, E., Brent, L. J. N., Duboscq, J., García-Nisa, I., Kaburu, S. S. K., Kendal, R., Konečná, M., Marty, P. R., McCowan, B., Micheletta, J., Ostner, J., Schülke, O., Schino, G., & Majolo, B. (2024). Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates. Behavioral Ecology, 35(5), Article arae066. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arae066

In animal social groups, the extent to which individuals consistently win agonistic interactions and their ability to monopolize resources represent 2 core aspects of their competitive regime. However, whether these two aspects are closely correlated... Read More about Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates..

Investigating the effects of social information on spite in an online game (2024)
Journal Article
Watson, R., Morgan, T., Kendal, R., Van de Vyver, J., & Kendal, J. (2024). Investigating the effects of social information on spite in an online game. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6, Article e26. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2024.18

While humans are highly cooperative, they can also behave spitefully. Yet spite remains understudied. Spite can be normatively driven and while previous experiments have found some evidence that cooperation and punishment may spread via social learni... Read More about Investigating the effects of social information on spite in an online game.

Cultural Evolution: Innovation, Social learning, Cumulative culture & Applications (2023)
Book Chapter
Kendal, R. (in press). Cultural Evolution: Innovation, Social learning, Cumulative culture & Applications. In M. Gelfand MJ, C. Chiu, & Y. Hong (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Advances in Culture & Psychology Vol. 11. Oxford University Press

Group size and mating system predict sex differences in vocal fundamental frequency in anthropoid primates (2023)
Journal Article
Aung, T., Hill, A. K., Pfefferle, D., McLester, E., Fuller, J., Lawrence, J. M., Garcia-Nisa, I., Kendal, R. L., Petersdorf, M., Higham, J. P., Galat, G., Lameira, A. R., Apicella, C. L., Barelli, C., Glenn, M. E., Ramos-Fernandez, G., & Puts, D. A. (2023). Group size and mating system predict sex differences in vocal fundamental frequency in anthropoid primates. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 4069. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39535-w

Vocalizations differ substantially between the sexes in many primates, and low-frequency male vocalizations may be favored by sexual selection because they intimidate rivals and/or attract mates. Sexual dimorphism in fundamental frequency may be more... Read More about Group size and mating system predict sex differences in vocal fundamental frequency in anthropoid primates.

Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation (2023)
Journal Article
Galesic, M., Barkoczi, D., Berdahl, A. M., Biro, D., Carbone, G., Giannoccaro, I., Goldstone, R. L., Gonzalez, C., Kandler, A., Kao, A. B., Kendal, R., Kline, M., Lee, E., Massari, G. F., Mesoudi, A., Olsson, H., Pescetelli, N., Sloman, S. J., Smaldino, P. E., & Stein, D. L. (2023). Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation. Journal of the Royal Society. Interface, 20(200), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2022.0736

We develop a conceptual framework for studying collective adaptation in complex socio-cognitive systems, driven by dynamic interactions of social integration strategies, social environments and problem structures. Going beyond searching for ‘intellig... Read More about Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation.

Adaptive Social Learning: Social Learning Strategies and their Applications (2023)
Book Chapter
Kendal, R., & Watson, R. (2023). Adaptive Social Learning: Social Learning Strategies and their Applications. In J. J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, & R. Kendal (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.14

Although social learning is intuitively useful, researchers from several fields have, over the last 30 years, increasingly recognized that it is not inherently adaptive. Individuals certainly can gain fitness benefits by learning from others as they... Read More about Adaptive Social Learning: Social Learning Strategies and their Applications.

The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques (2023)
Journal Article
Garcia-Nisa, I., Evans, C., & Kendal, R. L. (2023). The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 1176. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26699-6

Despite playing a pivotal role in the inception of animal culture studies, macaque social learning is surprisingly understudied. Social learning is important to survival and influenced by dominance and affiliation in social animals. Individuals gener... Read More about The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques.

Social Learning Strategies (2022)
Book Chapter
Kendal, R. L. (2022). Social Learning Strategies. In M. A. Krause, K. L. Hollis, & M. R. Papini (Eds.), Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms (247-264). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768450.017

Animal learning may play several important roles in evolution. Here we discuss how: (1) learning can provide an additional form of inheritance, (2) learning can instigate plasticity-first evolution, (3) learning can influence niche construction, and... Read More about Social Learning Strategies.

Social learning strategies and cooperative behaviour: Evidence of payoff bias, but not prestige or conformity, in a social dilemma game (2021)
Journal Article
Watson, R., Morgan, T. J., Kendal, R. L., Van de Vyver, J., & Kendal, J. (2021). Social learning strategies and cooperative behaviour: Evidence of payoff bias, but not prestige or conformity, in a social dilemma game. Games, 12(4), Article 89. https://doi.org/10.3390/g12040089

Human cooperation, occurring without reciprocation and between unrelated individuals in large populations, represents an evolutionary puzzle. One potential explanation is that cooperative behaviour may be transmitted between individuals via social le... Read More about Social learning strategies and cooperative behaviour: Evidence of payoff bias, but not prestige or conformity, in a social dilemma game.