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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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Andrew Whiten

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNavigating the social world.
Subtitle of host publicationWhat infants, children, and other species can teach us.
EditorsMahzarin Banaji, Susan Gelman
Place of PublicationUnited States of America
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages150-154
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)978-0-19-989071-2
Publication statusPublished - 2013

    Research areas

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

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