Consistent individual differences in human social learning strategies

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Molleman, Lucas ^a   Van Den Berg, Pieter ^a   Weissing, Franz J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CULTURAL CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; INNOVATION; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL STATUS; ADOLESCENT; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898724967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4570     Document Type: Article

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