Social learning research outside the laboratory: How and why?

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-194

  Kendal, Rachel L ^a   Galef, Bennett G ^b   Van Schaik, Carel P ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CULTURE; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77956988301     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.38.3.187     Document Type: Review

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