Social Learning in the Real-World: ‘Over-Imitation’ Occurs in Both Children and Adults Unaware of Participation in an Experiment and Independently of Social Interaction

The current study avoided the typical laboratory context to determine instead whether over-imitation—the disposition to copy even visibly, causally unnecessary actions—occurs in a real-world context in which participants are unaware of being in an experiment. We disguised a puzzle-box task as an int...

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Autores principales: Whiten, Andrew, Allan, Gillian, Devlin, Siobahn, Kseib, Natalie, Raw, Nicola, McGuigan, Nicola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4965103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27466806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159920

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4965103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27466806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159920

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