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A Comparative Approach to the Study of Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go? (2024)
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Vale, G. L., & Rawlings, B. S. (2024). A Comparative Approach to the Study of Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go?. Comparative cognition & behavior reviews, 19, 97-103. https://doi.org/10.3819/ccbr.2024.190021

Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) in nonhumans remains rare. Here, we suggest that this results partly from methodological challenges involved in comparative CCE. We discuss two core challenges researchers in the field face: our sample... Read More about A Comparative Approach to the Study of Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go?.

Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies (2023)
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Rawlings, B. S., Davis, H. E., Anum, A., Burger, O., Chen, L., Morales, J. C. C., …Legare, C. H. (2023). Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies. Developmental Science, e13434. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13434

Recent decades have seen a rapid acceleration in global participation in formal education, due to worldwide initiatives aimed to provide school access to all children. Research in high income countries has shown that school quality indicators have a... Read More about Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies.

Peer learning and cultural evolution (2023)
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Lew-Levy, S., Bos, W. V. D., Corriveau, K. H., Dutra, N. B., Dutra, N., Flynn, E. G., …Wood, L. (2023). Peer learning and cultural evolution. Child Development Perspectives, 17, 97-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12482

In this article, we integrate cultural evolutionary theory with empirical research from developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, and primatology to explore the role of peer learning in the development of complex instrumental skills and behavi... Read More about Peer learning and cultural evolution.

Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships (2023)
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Rawlings, B. S., van Leeuwen, E. J., & Davila-Ross, M. (2023). Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships. Learning & Behavior, 51, 48-58. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-023-00570-8

Male and female human social bonding strategies are culturally shaped, in addition to being genetically rooted. Investigating nonhuman primate bonding strategies across sex groups allows researchers to assess whether, as with humans, they are shaped... Read More about Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships.

Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children (2022)
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Davis, S., Rawlings, B., Clegg, J. M., Ikejimba, D., Watson-Jones, R. E., Whiten, A., & Legare, C. H. (2022). Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 14073. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18231-7

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) a... Read More about Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children.

Developing Cross-Cultural Data Infrastructures (CCDIs) for Research in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences (2022)
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Burger, O., Chen, L., Erut, A., Fong, F. T., Rawlings, B., & Legare, C. H. (2023). Developing Cross-Cultural Data Infrastructures (CCDIs) for Research in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 14, 565–585. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-022-00635-z

Cross-cultural research provides invaluable information about the origins of and explanations for cognitive and behavioral diversity. Interest in cross-cultural research is growing, but the field continues to be dominated by WEIRD (Western, Educated,... Read More about Developing Cross-Cultural Data Infrastructures (CCDIs) for Research in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences.

After a decade of tool innovation, what comes next? (2022)
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Rawlings, B. S. (2022). After a decade of tool innovation, what comes next?. Child Development Perspectives, 16(2), 118-124. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12451

A decade ago, now-seminal work showed that children are strikingly unskilled at simple tool innovation. Since then, a surge of research has replicated these findings across diverse cultures, which has stimulated evocative yet unanswered questions. Hu... Read More about After a decade of tool innovation, what comes next?.

Examining relations between performance on non‐verbal executive function and verbal self‐regulation tasks in demographically‐diverse populations (2022)
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Dutra, N. B., Chen, L., Anum, A., Burger, O., Davis, H. E., Dzokoto, V. A., …Legare, C. H. (2022). Examining relations between performance on non‐verbal executive function and verbal self‐regulation tasks in demographically‐diverse populations. Developmental Science, 25(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13228

Self-regulation is a widely studied construct, generally assumed to be cognitively supported by executive functions (EFs). There is a lack of clarity and consensus over the roles of specific components of EFs in self-regulation. The current study exa... Read More about Examining relations between performance on non‐verbal executive function and verbal self‐regulation tasks in demographically‐diverse populations.