Balancing evidence and norms in cultural evolution

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 129, Issue , 2015, Pages 93-104

  MacCoun, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformity; Culture; Diffusion; Imitation; Norms; Threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930821630     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2014.09.009     Document Type: Article

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