Dr Jeremy Kendal's Outputs (4)

How cultural innovations trigger the emergence of new pathogens (2024)
Journal Article
Pooladvand, P., Kendal, J., & Tanaka, M. (2024). How cultural innovations trigger the emergence of new pathogens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(48), Article e2322882121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2322882121

Cultural practices perceived to be adaptive-from clearing land for food production to medical innovations-can disseminate quickly through human populations. However, these same practices often have unintended maladaptive effects. A particularly conse... Read More about How cultural innovations trigger the emergence of new pathogens.

Context in memory is reconstructed, not encoded (2024)
Journal Article
Easton, A., Horner, A. J., James, S. J., Kendal, J., Sutton, J., & Ainge, J. A. (2024). Context in memory is reconstructed, not encoded. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 167, Article 105934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105934

Context has long been regarded as an important element of long-term memory, and episodic memory in particular. The ability to remember not only the object or focus of a memory but also contextual details allow us to reconstruct integrated representat... Read More about Context in memory is reconstructed, not encoded.

Prestige-Biased Social Learning (2024)
Book Chapter
Offord, M., Brand, C., & Kendal, J. (2024). Prestige-Biased Social Learning. In J. J. Tehrani (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.16

This chapter explores the role of prestige-biased social learning within cultural evolution studies. The authors define and underscore the significance of prestige, tracing its historical development in the social sciences. Originating from early twe... Read More about Prestige-Biased Social Learning.

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.