Prestige-biased social learning: Current evidence and outstanding questions

ÁV Jiménez, A Mesoudi - Palgrave Communications, 2019 - nature.com
Cultural evolution theory posits that a major factor in human ecological success is our high-
fidelity and selective social learning, which permits the accumulation of adaptive knowledge …

The psychology of cultural dynamics: What is it, what do we know, and what is yet to be known?

Y Kashima, PG Bain, A Perfors - Annual Review of Psychology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The psychology of cultural dynamics is the psychological investigation of the formation,
maintenance, and transformation of culture over time. This article maps out the terrain …

Cognitive attraction and online misinformation

A Acerbi - Palgrave Communications, 2019 - nature.com
The spread of online misinformation has gained mainstream attention in recent years. This
paper approaches this phenomenon from a cultural evolution and cognitive anthropology …

[图书][B] Cultural evolution in the digital age

A Acerbi - 2019 - books.google.com
From emails to social media, from instant messaging to political memes, the way we produce
and transmit culture is radically changing. Understanding the consequences of the massive …

The sky is falling: evidence of a negativity bias in the social transmission of information

K Bebbington, C MacLeod, TM Ellison, N Fay - Evolution and Human …, 2017 - Elsevier
The method of serial reproduction has revealed that the social transmission of information is
characterized by the gradual transformation of the original message. This transformation …

Humans create more novelty than ChatGPT when asked to retell a story

F Breithaupt, E Otenen, DR Wright, JK Kruschke, Y Li… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
We compare how humans retell stories to how ChatGPT retells stories in chains of three
retellings by different people or different accounts on ChatGPT. ChatGPT provides …

Birth of the cool: a two-centuries decline in emotional expression in Anglophone fiction

O Morin, A Acerbi - Cognition and emotion, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The presence of emotional words and content in stories has been shown to enhance a
story's memorability, and its cultural success. Yet, recent cultural trends run in the opposite …

Emociones y difusión de noticias sobre el cambio climático en redes sociales. Influencia de hábitos, actitudes previas y usos y gratificaciones en universitarios

F Segado-Boj, J Díaz-Campo… - Revista Latina de …, 2020 - hal.science
Introducción: Esta investigación analiza la influencia que ejercen las emociones a la hora
de decidir si se comparten las noticias sobre el cambio climático en redes sociales. Se …

From crisis of evidence to a “crisis” of relevance? Incentive-based answers for social psychology's perennial relevance worries

R Giner-Sorolla - European Review of Social Psychology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Current controversies in social psychology have sparked the promotion of new rules for
evidence in the field. This “crisis of evidence” echoes prior concerns from the 1970s about a …

Prestige and content biases together shape the cultural transmission of narratives

REW Berl, AN Samarasinghe, SG Roberts… - Evolutionary Human …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Cultural transmission biases such as prestige are thought to have been a primary driver in
shaping the dynamics of human cultural evolution. However, few empirical studies have …