M Tomasello - Child development, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
M. Tomasello, A. Kruger, and H. Ratner (1993) proposed a theory of cultural learning comprising imitative learning, instructed learning, and collaborative learning. Empirical and …
Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …
Four tasks (N= 191, 3‐to 6‐year‐olds) examined the effect of instrumental versus conventional language cues on children's imitative fidelity of a necklace‐making activity …
JM Clegg, CH Legare - Developmental Psychology, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Recent research with Western populations has demonstrated that children use imitation flexibly to engage in both instrumental and conventional learning. Evidence for children's …
H Miton, M Charbonneau - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the last decade, cultural transmission experiments (transmission chains, replacement, closed groups and seeded groups) have become important experimental tools in …
M Tomasello - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Cumulative cultural evolution is unique to the human species.•One basis for cumulative culture is human children's tendency to conform.•Another basis for cumulative …
Developmental psychologists have long-established the importance of socio-cognitive abilities in human intelligence. These abilities enable us to enter, participate and benefit …
In the current literature, there are few experimental tests of capacities for cumulative cultural evolution in nonhuman species. There are even fewer examples of such tests in young …
The ratchet effect–the accumulation of beneficial changes in cultural products beyond a level that individuals could reach on their own–is a topic of increasing interest. It is currently …