Individual consistency and flexibility in human social information use

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1776, 2013, Pages

  Toelch, Ulf ^a,b,c   Bruce, Matthew J ^a,d   Newson, Lesley ^e,f   Richerson, Peter J ^e   Reader, Simon M ^a,g  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collectivism; Culture; Development; Individual differences; Personality; Social learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLECTIVISM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; IMITATION; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; INDIVIDUALITY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL LEARNING; UNITED STATES;

COLLECTIVISM; CULTURE; DEVELOPMENT; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL LEARNING;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUALITY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84902670174     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2864     Document Type: Article

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