Cultural evolution and individual development of openness and conservatism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 45, 2009, Pages 18931-18935

  Acerbi, Alberto ^a   Enquist, Magnus ^b   Ghirlanda, Stefano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Mathematical model; Personality; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL LEARNING;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; POLITICS; SOCIAL CONFORMITY;

EID: 73149096478     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908889106     Document Type: Article

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