Rethinking prestige bias
Abstract
Some cultural evolution researchers have argued for the importance of prestige bias as a systematic and widespread social learning bias, that structures human social learning and cultural transmission patterns. Broadly speaking, prestige bias accounts understand it as a bias towards copying ‘prestigious’ individuals (which are typically described as high-status, due to a high level of skill or success in a socially valued domain, and so are...
Paper Details
Title
Rethinking prestige bias
Published Date
Feb 8, 2020
Journal
Volume
198
Issue
9
Pages
8191 - 8212
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