How Cultural Evolutionary Theory Can Inform Social Psychology and Vice Versa

Psychological Review

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 929-952

  Mesoudi, Alex ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

conformity; cultural evolution; cultural transmission; intergroup processes; social learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION;

ADULT; CHILD; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 70350443594     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017062     Document Type: Article

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