Cognitive culture: Theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 68-76

  Rendell, Luke ^a   Fogarty, Laurel ^a   Hoppitt, William J E ^a   Morgan, Thomas J H ^a   Webster, Mike M ^a   Laland, Kevin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; LEARNING STRATEGY; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL LEARNING;

DECISION MAKING;

COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; MARKETING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL LEARNING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL FACILITATION;

EID: 78951474441     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.12.002     Document Type: Review

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