Role of social disorder-related environmental cues as signals in modulating social learning, norm non-compliance and collective decisions in human societies

Current Science

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1046-1050

  Rastogi, Neelkamal ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Behavioural imitation; Collective human behaviour; Cultural evolution; Social information collection; Social signals

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249248929     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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