Adaptive Social Learning Strategies in Temporally and Spatially Varying Environments: How Temporal vs. Spatial Variation, Number of Cultural Traits, and Costs of Learning Influence the Evolution of Conformist-Biased Transmission, Payoff-Biased Transmission, and Individual Learning

Human Nature

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 386-418

  Nakahashi, Wataru ^a   Wakano, Joe Yuichiro ^a   Henrich, Joseph ^b  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conformist transmission; Individual learning; Learning strategies; Payoff biased transmission; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEARNING; MIGRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LEARNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84870369647     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-012-9151-y     Document Type: Article

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