Social Cognition: Making us smart, or sometimes making us dumb? Overimitation, conformity, nonconformity, and the transmission of culture in ape and child.

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	Navigating the social world.
Subtitle of host publication	What infants, children, and other species can teach us.
Editors	Mahzarin Banaji, Susan Gelman
Place of Publication	United States of America
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	150-154
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	978-0-19-989071-2
Publication status	Published - 2013

EVOLUTION, SOCIAL COGNITION, CONFORMITY, nonconformity, overimitation, NONHUMAN PRIMATE, APE, Cultural evolution

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