from day 15/05/2010

Overimitation in Kalahari Bushman: Children and the Origins of Human Cultural Cognition

An interesting paper by Mark Nielsen and Keyan Tomaselli “Overimitation in Kalahari Bushman Children and the Origins of Human Cultural Cognition” in Psychological Science,May 2010, 21: 729-736. You will find a freely available version here. Abstract: Children are surrounded by objects that ...

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Do not confound homophily and contagion!

At arXiv.org, a relevant paper by Cosma Shalizi and Andrew C. Thomas “Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies” (available here). Abstract: We consider processes on social networks that can potentially involve three phenomena: homophily, or the ...

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