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Experimental Emergence of Conventions in Human Dyads

2026-01-12

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Conventions can be defined as arbitrary and self-sustaining practices that emerge in a population and facilitate solving coordination problems. A recent study traced the formation of simple conventions in captive baboons in a touch-screen-based color-matching ‘game’. We replicated this task with human pairs under different conditions (with/without visual access to the partner’s screen; with/without prior informati...

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Literature Corpus work: 754b1af4-19ef-5f62-b8db-c10483e40748
DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.10.698799

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