Serial killers, spiders and cybersex: Social and survival information bias in the transmission of urban legends

British Journal of Psychology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 288-307

  Stubbersfield, Joseph M ^a   Tehrani, Jamshid J ^a   Flynn, Emma G ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Content biases; Cultural evolution; Cultural transmission; Evolutionary psychology; Urban legends

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LITERATURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; READING; RECALL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MYTHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926521542     PISSN: 00071269     EISSN: 20448295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12073     Document Type: Article

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