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 …

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 …

“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences...
Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

Metacognition is the ability to monitor and control cognition. Because young children often
provide inaccurate metacognitive judgments when prompted to do so verbally, it has long …

A variety of different proposals have attempted to explain the apparent uniqueness of human
cumulative culture as a consequence of underlying mechanisms that are also assumed to …

Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the
New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine …

Twenty-five years ago, at the founding of this journal, there existed only a few conflicting
findings about great apes' social-cognitive skills (theory of mind). In the 2 ½ decades since …

Primate Cognition is the study of cognitive processes, which represent internal mental
processes involved in discriminations, decisions, and behaviors of humans and other …

The Birth of the Gods is dedicated to Durkheim's effort to understand the basis of social
integration. Unlike most social scientists, then and now, Durkheim concluded that humans …

This study integrates social comparison theory) and self‐determination theory to examine
the roles of escapism, conformity, and individual cultural values in sha** luxury brand …