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Whalen, Andrew; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Buchsbaum, Daphna – Cognitive Science, 2018
Social learning has been shown to be an evolutionarily adaptive strategy, but it can be implemented via many different cognitive mechanisms. The adaptive advantage of social learning depends crucially on the ability of each learner to obtain relevant and accurate information from informants. The source of informants' knowledge is a particularly…
Descriptors: Social Development, Socialization, Bayesian Statistics, Behavior Patterns