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Do Children Copy an Expert or a Majority? Examining Selective Learning in Instrumental and Normative Contexts (2016)
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© 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)
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© 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.

Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning: Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon (2011)
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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.