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What Is Innovation?: A Review of Definitions, Approaches, and Key Questions in Human and Non-Human Innovation (2024)
Book Chapter
Rawlings, B. S., & Reader, S. M. (2024). What Is Innovation?: A Review of Definitions, Approaches, and Key Questions in Human and Non-Human Innovation. In J. J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, & R. Kendal (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.11

Innovation, new or modified learned behaviour, is core to cultural evolution and fundamental to the success of humans. Innovations allow us to adapt to and change habitats, solve novel problems, and survive and flourish in diverse environments. Innov... Read More about What Is Innovation?: A Review of Definitions, Approaches, and Key Questions in Human and Non-Human Innovation.

Cross-Species Comparisons of Human and Non-Human Culture: Approaches, Discoveries, Limitations, and Future Directions (2023)
Book Chapter
Wood, L. A., Vale, G. L., Flynn, E. G., & Rawlings, B. S. (2023). Cross-Species Comparisons of Human and Non-Human Culture: Approaches, Discoveries, Limitations, and Future Directions. In J. J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, & R. Kendal (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.30

Studies that directly compare the behaviour of two or more species can identify important similarities and differences in the psychological mechanisms that underpin culture, social learning, and innovation. This chapter focuses on the phylogeneticall... Read More about Cross-Species Comparisons of Human and Non-Human Culture: Approaches, Discoveries, Limitations, and Future Directions.

Independence Conditionals (2023)
Book Chapter
Cruz, N., & Over, D. E. (2023). Independence Conditionals. In S. Kaufmann, D. E. Over, & G. Sharma (Eds.), Conditionals: Logic, Linguistics and Psychology (223-233). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05682-6_8

Douven et al. (this volume) have replied to our critique (Over and Cruz this volume) of their version of truth condition inferentialism (TCI). They have generously allowed us to have the last word (in this volume) in this debate. Their TCI theory is... Read More about Independence Conditionals.

Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals in the Psychology of Reasoning (2023)
Book Chapter
Over, D. E., & Cruz, N. (2023). Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals in the Psychology of Reasoning. In S. Kaufmann, D. E. Over, & G. Sharma (Eds.), . Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05682-6_6

Our objective in this chapter is to introduce the study of indictive and counterfactual conditionals in the psychology of reasoning, and to discuss how psychology can make progress in understanding the relationship between these conditionals in peopl... Read More about Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals in the Psychology of Reasoning.

Primate empathy: A flexible and multi-componential phenomenon (2022)
Book Chapter
Brooker, J. S., Webb, C. E., & Clay, Z. (2022). Primate empathy: A flexible and multi-componential phenomenon. In M. J. Beran, & B. L. Schwartz (Eds.), Primate Cognitive Studies (505-531). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955836.020

Empathy, the capacity to share and understand others’ states, is crucial for facilitating enduring social relationships and managing ingroup and outgroup dynamics. Despite being at the center of much scrutiny and debate in human research, the evoluti... Read More about Primate empathy: A flexible and multi-componential phenomenon.