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When do people prefer dominant over prestigious political leaders?
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 Previous research has sought to explain the rise of right-wing populist leaders in terms of the evolutionary framework of dominance and prestige. In this framework, dominance is defined as high social rank acquired via coercion and fear, and prestige is ...
Ángel V. Jiménez +2 more
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Cultural evolution of categorization [PDF]
Cognitive Systems Research, 2018 17 ...
Pablo Contreras Kallens +2 more
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Open Research Europe, 2023 Language comparison requires user-friendly tools that facilitate the standardization of linguistic data. We present two resources built on the basis of a standardized cross-linguistic format and show how the data is curated and extended.
Robert Forkel +2 more
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Open Research Europe, 2023 Language comparison requires user-friendly tools that facilitate the standardization of linguistic data. We present two resources built on the basis of a standardized cross-linguistic format and show how the data is curated and extended.
Robert Forkel +2 more
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Games, 2021 Human cooperation, occurring without reciprocation and between unrelated individuals in large populations, represents an evolutionary puzzle. One potential explanation is that cooperative behaviour may be transmitted between individuals via social ...
Robin Watson +4 more
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Analogy as a Catalyst for Cumulative Cultural Evolution.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021 Analogies, broadly defined, map novel concepts onto familiar concepts, making them essential for perception, reasoning, and communication. We argue that analogy-building served a critical role in the evolution of cumulative culture by allowing humans to ...
C. Brand, A. Mesoudi, P. Smaldino
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Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA): a dataset of 52 languages
Scientific Data, 2023 Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA) is a resource capturing two snapshots of the grammatical structure of a diverse range of languages separated in time, aimed at furthering research on historical linguistics, language evolution, and cultural change ...
Frederic Blum +4 more
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Culture: persistence and evolution [PDF]
Journal of Economic Growth, 2019 This paper documents the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a range of values and beliefs of different generations of US immigrants, and interprets the evidence in the light of a model of socialization and identity choice. Convergence to the norm differs greatly across cultural attitudes.
Giavazzi, Francesco +2 more
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Cultural evolution and population thinking from The cultural evolution of cultural evolution
, 2021 What makes fast, cumulative cultural evolution work? Where did it come from? Why is it the sole preserve of humans? We set out a self-assembly hypothesis: cultural evolution evolved culturally. We present an evolutionary account that shows this hypothesis to be coherent, plausible, and worthy of further investigation. It has the following steps: (0) in
Birch, Jonathan, Heyes, Cecilia
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Open Research Europe, 2022 Although lexical borrowing is an important aspect of language evolution, there have been few attempts to automate the identification of borrowings in lexical datasets.
Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List
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