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The Adaptive Use of Prestige-Biased Social Learning in an Online, Knowledge-Based Task

2019-12-12

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<p>Prestige-biased social learning occurs when individuals preferentially learn from others who are highly respected, admired, copied, or attended to in their group. This form of social learning is argued to reflect novel forms of social hierarchy in human societies, and, by providing an efficient short-cut to acquiring adaptive information, underpin the cumulative cultural evolution that has contributed to our sp...

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Literature Corpus work: 526a397d-7fa2-5631-99d5-c3f41218c48f
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/mn9t6

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