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Prestige bias in cultural evolutionary dynamics
2023-02-16
Abstract excerpt
A common bias in cultural transmission is success bias, where more successful individuals are more likely to be copied. Because success may be difficult to estimate, individuals may indirectly estimate success by using prestige as a proxy for success. Here, we model prestige bias as a combination of indirect success bias and influence bias, the latter meaning that the choice of a role-model depends on the number o...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 36af71e3-ddbc-562d-ad03-1c061c828144
- DOI
- 10.32942/x2jg6p