Social information use and social information waste

Volume: 376, Issue: 1828
Published: May 17, 2021
Abstract
Social information is immensely valuable. Yet we waste it. The information we get from observing other humans and from communicating with them is a cheap and reliable informational resource. It is considered the backbone of human cultural evolution. Theories and models focused on the evolution of social learning show the great adaptive benefits of evolving cognitive tools to process it. In spite of this, human adults in the experimental...
Paper Details
Title
Social information use and social information waste
Published Date
May 17, 2021
Volume
376
Issue
1828
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