Cultural evolutionary behavioural science in public policy

R Schimmelpfennig, M Muthukrishna - Behavioural Public Policy, 2023 - cambridge.org
Interventions are to the social sciences what inventions are to the physical sciences–an
application of science as technology. Behavioural science has emerged as a powerful toolkit …

Decoding the dynamics of cultural change: A cultural evolution approach to the psychology of acculturation

JR Kunst, A Mesoudi - Personality and Social Psychology …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Although acculturation psychology is extensively studied in the social sciences, research
progress has slowed due to overused methodologies and theories and emerging …

Surname diversity, social ties and innovation

M Posch, J Schulz, J Henrich - Social Ties and Innovation (August …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We study whether interactions between individuals with different skills, expertise and
perspectives influenced innovation in US counties from 1850 to 1940. We introduce and …

累积文化演化的内在机制: 实验证据

杨蕾, 陈维扬, 白宝玉, 钟年 - 心理科学进展, 2023 - journal.psych.ac.cn
累积文化演化(Cumulative Cultural Evolution, CCE) 指随着时间推移, 通过个体或群体间的多种
社会传递和修改创新, 人类文化在效率, 功能, 复杂性等方面发生了适应性的变化 …

A problem in theory and more: Measuring the moderating role of culture in Many Labs 2

The multi-site replication study, Many Labs 2 (ML2), attempted to test whether population,
site and setting variability moderates the likelihood of replication and effect size. The …

Innovation-facilitating networks create inequality

C Moser, PE Smaldino - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Theories of innovation often balance contrasting views that either smart people create smart
things or smartly constructed institutions create smart things. While population models have …

[PDF][PDF] Causality and variance across the spectrum of synergistic interaction

BA Beheim, AV Bell - PsyArXiv. doi, 2023 - files.osf.io
Quantifying the distance between cultural groups has received substantial recent interest. A
key innovation borrowed from population genetics has been the calculation of cultural FST …

Balancing Specialization and Adaptation in a Transforming Scientific Landscape

L Gautheron - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.14040, 2023 - arxiv.org
How scientists navigate between the need to capitalize on their prior knowledge by
specializing, and the urge to adapt to evolving research opportunities? Drawing from diverse …

[PDF][PDF] CULTURAL DISTANCE CAN PROMOTE—OR IMPEDE—GROUP-BENEFICIAL OUTCOMES ACROSS A SPECTRUM OF BEHAVIORAL INTERACTIONS

B Beheim, AV Bell - 2023 - files.osf.io
Quantifying the distance between cultural groups has received substantial recent interest. A
key innovation, borrowed from population genetics, has been the calculation of cultural FST …

Cultural Evolution and Public Policy

R Schimmelpfennig, M Muthukrishna - 2023 - academic.oup.com
Interventions are to the social sciences what inventions are to the physical sciences—an
application of science as technology. Behavioural science has emerged as a powerful toolkit …