Humans are an ultrasocial species. This sociality, however, cannot be fully explained by the
canonical approaches found in evolutionary biology, psychology, or economics …

While social learning is widespread, indiscriminate copying of others is rarely beneficial.
Theory suggests that individuals should be selective in what, when, and whom they copy, by …

Effective information transfer requires social communication skills. As autism is clinically
defined by social communication deficits, it may be expected that information transfer …

One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised
a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they …

Learning the value of stimuli and actions from others—social learning—adaptively
contributes to individual survival and plays a key role in cultural evolution. We review …

From emails to social media, from instant messaging to political memes, the way we produce
and transmit culture is radically changing. Understanding the consequences of the massive …

Cultural evolution theory posits that a major factor in human ecological success is our high-
fidelity and selective social learning, which permits the accumulation of adaptive knowledge …

To make good use of learning from others (social learning), we need to learn from the right
others; from agents who know better than we do. Research on social learning strategies …

Two studies test the hypothesis that imitative fidelity is influenced by cues to interpret
behavior as instrumental versus conventional. Study 1 (N= 57, 4–5-yr-olds) manipulated non …

Formal evolutionary models predict when individuals rely on social learning over individual
learning and the relative strength of their conformist social learning biases. Here we use …