Professor Rachel Kendal rachel.kendal@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Professor Rachel Kendal rachel.kendal@durham.ac.uk
Professor
N. Boogert
L. Rendell
K.N. Laland
M. Webster
P.L. Jones
While social learning is widespread, indiscriminate copying of others is rarely beneficial. Theory suggests that individuals should be selective in what, when, and whom they copy, by following ‘social learning strategies’ (SLSs). The SLS concept has stimulated extensive experimental work, integrated theory, and empirical findings, and created impetus to the social learning and cultural evolution fields. However, the SLS concept needs updating to accommodate recent findings that individuals switch between strategies flexibly, that multiple strategies are deployed simultaneously, and that there is no one-to-one correspondence between psychological heuristics deployed and resulting population-level patterns. The field would also benefit from the simultaneous study of mechanism and function. SLSs provide a useful vehicle for bridge-building between cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 12, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | May 11, 2018 |
Publication Date | Jul 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Apr 12, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | May 11, 2019 |
Journal | Trends in Cognitive Sciences |
Print ISSN | 1364-6613 |
Publisher | Cell Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 22 |
Issue | 7 |
Pages | 651-665 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.04.003 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1334735 |
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