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A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture (2017)
Journal Article
Burdett, E. R. R., Dean, L. G., & Ronfard, S. (2018). A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 9(4), 807-818. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-017-0345-4

© 2017, The Author(s). Human culture is uniquely complex compared to other species. This complexity stems from the accumulation of culture over time through high- and low-fidelity transmission and innovation. One possible reason for why humans retain... Read More about A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture.

The Development of Selective Copying: Children's Learning From an Expert Versus Their Mother (2016)
Journal Article
Lucas, A. J., Burdett, E. R. R., Burgess, V., Wood, L. A., McGuigan, N., Harris, P. L., & Whiten, A. (2017). The Development of Selective Copying: Children's Learning From an Expert Versus Their Mother. Child Development, 88(6), 2026-2042. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12711

© 2016 The Authors. Child Development © 2016 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. This study tested the prediction that, with age, children should rely less on familiarity and more on expertise in their selective social learning. Experimen... Read More about The Development of Selective Copying: Children's Learning From an Expert Versus Their Mother.

Do Children Copy an Expert or a Majority? Examining Selective Learning in Instrumental and Normative Contexts (2016)
Journal Article
Burdett, E. R. R., Lucas, A. J., Buchsbaum, D., McGuigan, N., Wood, L. A., & Whiten, A. (2016). Do Children Copy an Expert or a Majority? Examining Selective Learning in Instrumental and Normative Contexts. PLoS ONE, 11(10), Article e0164698. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164698

© 2016 Burdett et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cr... Read More about Do Children Copy an Expert or a Majority? Examining Selective Learning in Instrumental and Normative Contexts.

“Model age-based” and “copy when uncertain” biases in children’s social learning of a novel task (2016)
Journal Article
Wood, L. A., Harrison, R. A., Lucas, A. J., McGuigan, N., Burdett, E. R., & Whiten, A. (2016). “Model age-based” and “copy when uncertain” biases in children’s social learning of a novel task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 150, 272-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.06.005

© 2016 The Authors Theoretical models of social learning predict that individuals can benefit from using strategies that specify when and whom to copy. Here the interaction of two social learning strategies, model age-based biased copying and copy wh... Read More about “Model age-based” and “copy when uncertain” biases in children’s social learning of a novel task.

The circle of life: A cross-cultural comparison of children's attribution of life-cycle traits (2015)
Journal Article
Burdett, E. R. R., & Barrett, J. L. (2015). The circle of life: A cross-cultural comparison of children's attribution of life-cycle traits. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 34(2), 276-290. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12131

© 2016 The British Psychological Society. Do children attribute mortality and other life-cycle traits to all minded beings? The present study examined whether culture influences young children's ability to conceptualize and differentiate human beings... Read More about The circle of life: A cross-cultural comparison of children's attribution of life-cycle traits.

Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning: Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon (2011)
Journal Article
Cohen, E., Burdett, E., Knight, N., & Barrett, J. (2011). Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning: Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon. Cognitive Science, 35(7), 1282-1304. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01172.x

We report the results of a cross‐cultural investigation of person‐body reasoning in the United Kingdom and northern Brazilian Amazon (Marajó Island). The study provides evidence that directly bears upon divergent theoretical claims in cognitive psych... Read More about Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning: Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon.