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Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 2011 The goal of cross-cultural psychology to identify and explain similarities and differences in the behavior of individuals in different cultures requires linking human behavior to its context (Cole, Meshcheryakov & Ponomariov, 2011). In order to specify this relation, the focus is usually on the sociocultural environment and how it interacts with ...
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The cultural evolution of mind-modelling
Synthese, 2020 I argue that uniquely human forms of ‘Theory of Mind’ (or ‘ToM’) are a product of cultural evolution. Specifically, propositional attitude psychology is a linguistically constructed folk model of the human mind, invented by our ancestors for a range of ...
Richard Moore
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Scientific Reports, 2022 We present the results of a multi-disciplinary investigation on a deciduous human tooth (Pradis 1), recently recovered from the Epigravettian layers of the Grotte di Pradis archaeological site (Northeastern Italian Prealps).
Federico Lugli +15 more
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Psychological Mechanisms Forged by Cultural Evolution
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2020 The adaptive features of cognitive mechanisms, the features that make them fit for purpose, have traditionally been explained by nature and nurture. In the last decade, evidence has emerged that distinctively human cognitive mechanisms are also, and ...
C. Heyes
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The emergence and adaptive use of prestige in an online social learning task
Scientific Reports, 2020 Prestige-biased social learning occurs when individuals preferentially learn from others who are highly respected, admired, copied, or attended to in their group.
C. O. Brand +3 more
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Automatic Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns across Multiple Languages [PDF]
Computational Linguistics, 2019 Sound correspondence patterns play a crucial role for linguistic reconstruction. Linguists use them to prove language relationship, to reconstruct proto-forms, and for classical phylogenetic reconstruction based on shared innovations.
Johann-Mattis List
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Open Research Europe, 2022 Bangime is a language isolate, which has not been proven to be genealogically related to any other language family, spoken in Central-Eastern Mali. Its speakers, the Bangande, claim affiliation with the Dogon languages and speakers that surround them ...
Abbie Hantgan +2 more
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Cultural replication and microbial evolution [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of this paper is to argue that cultural evolution is in many ways much more similar to microbial than to macrobial biological evolution.
Nanay, Bence
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Cultural syndromes: Socially learned but real [PDF]
, 2016 While some of mental disorders due to emotional distress occur cross-culturally, others seem to be much more bound to particular cultures. In this paper, I propose that many of these “cultural syndromes” are culturally sanctioned responses to ...
Godman, Marion
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What is cumulative cultural evolution?
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 In recent years, the phenomenon of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) has become the focus of major research interest in biology, psychology and anthropology.
A. Mesoudi, Alex Thornton
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