All Outputs (4)

The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority- or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty (2021)
Journal Article
Burdett, E. R. R., Whiten, A., & McGuigan, N. (2022). The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority- or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 214, Article 105307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105307

Humans have adapted well to diverse environments in part because of their ability to efficiently acquire information from their social environment. However, we still know very little as to how young children acquire cultural knowledge and in particul... Read More about The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority- or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty.

When does it pay to follow the crowd? Children optimize imitation of causally- irrelevant actions performed by a majority (2021)
Journal Article
Evans, C. L., Burdett, E. R. R., Murray, K., & Carpenter, M. (2021). When does it pay to follow the crowd? Children optimize imitation of causally- irrelevant actions performed by a majority. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 212, Article 105229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105229

Cultural evolutionary theory posits that human cultural complexity rests on a set of adaptive learning biases that help to guide functionality and optimality in social learning, but this sits in contrast with the commonly held view that children are... Read More about When does it pay to follow the crowd? Children optimize imitation of causally- irrelevant actions performed by a majority.

Preverbal infants expect agents exhibiting counterintuitive capacities to gain access to contested resources (2021)
Journal Article
Meng, X., Nakawake, Y., Hashiya, K., Burdett, E., Jong, J., & Whitehouse, H. (2021). Preverbal infants expect agents exhibiting counterintuitive capacities to gain access to contested resources. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 10884. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89821-0

Do neurotypical people like or dislike autistic people? (2021)
Journal Article
Alkhaldi, R. S., Sheppard, E., Burdett, E., & Mitchell, P. (2021). Do neurotypical people like or dislike autistic people?. Autism in Adulthood, 3(3), https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2020.0059

Background: This study investigated whether neurotypical individuals’ judgments that they dislike a person are more common when viewing autistic individuals than when viewing neurotypical individuals. Methods: Videos of autistic and neurotypical targ... Read More about Do neurotypical people like or dislike autistic people?.