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Adaptive Social Learning [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their experience gained in past rounds to draw inferences from their predecessors’ current decisions. Such adaptation yields
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Partner influences on young women’s risky drug and sexual behavior
Reproductive Health, 2018 Background Adolescent girls with a history of maltreatment are at heightened risk for health-risking behaviors, including unsafe sexual behaviors and drug use.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 The adaptability of human populations to changing environments is often attributed to the human capacity for social learning, innovation, and culture. In rapidly changing environments, it has been shown that maintaining high levels of cultural variation is beneficial because it allows for efficient adaptation.
Madeleine Ammar +2 more
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Personalised Professional Development in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Trends in Higher EducationDespite the affordances of professional development (PD) in teaching and learning in facilitating quality teaching and contributing to students’ learning outcomes, there is merit in exploring educators’ needs by enabling conditions to further develop ...
Seo Hong Lim +3 more
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Social learning in otters [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The use of information provided by others to tackle life's challenges is widespread, but should not be employed indiscriminately if it is to be adaptive. Evidence is accumulating that animals are indeed selective and adopt ‘social learning strategies’. However, studies have generally focused on fish, bird and primate species.
Zosia Ladds +2 more
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Designing social learning [PDF]
European Economic ReviewThis paper studies strategic communication in the context of social learning. Product reviews are used by consumers to learn product quality, but in order to write a review, a consumer must be convinced to purchase the item first. When reviewers care about welfare of future consumers, this leads to a conflict: a reviewer today wants the future ...
Aleksei Smirnov, Egor Starkov
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On Social Networks That Support Learning [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 It is well understood that the structure of a social network is critical to whether or not agents can aggregate information correctly. In this paper, we study social networks that support information aggregation when rational agents act sequentially and irrevocably.
Itai Arieli +2 more
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Innovation and cumulative culture through tweaks and leaps in online programming contests
Nature Communications, 2018 The cumulative development of culture has proven difficult to study in the laboratory. Here, the authors examine entries to a series of large programming contests to show that successful entries are usually ‘tweaks’ of existing solutions, but occasional ‘
Elena Miu +3 more
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Heliyon, 2022 The development of modern technologies facilitated for teachers to integrate and use them in managing their teaching classroom. The aim of this paper is to explore how teachers in the Khon Kaen University (KKU) Smart Learning Project use the smart ...
Lan Thi Nguyen +9 more
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Cogent EducationThis study investigates how job quality influences work outcomes among adult educators, with work motivation as a mediator. Drawing on prior literature, we developed and tested a theoretical model involving job quality aspects such as work autonomy ...
Zan Chen, Liang See Tan
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