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

Andrew Whiten

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

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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

Keywords

EVOLUTION
SOCIAL COGNITION
CONFORMITY
nonconformity
overimitation
NONHUMAN PRIMATE
APE
Cultural evolution

Cite this

Whiten, Andrew. / Social Cognition : Making us smart, or sometimes making us dumb? Overimitation, conformity, nonconformity, and the transmission of culture in ape and child. Navigating the social world.: What infants, children, and other species can teach us.. editor / Mahzarin Banaji ; Susan Gelman. United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2013. pp. 150-154

@inbook{92d1f0aff83d4f8b8f7e2e927cea27d8,

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

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

author = "Andrew Whiten",

year = "2013",

language = "English",

isbn = "978-0-19-989071-2",

pages = "150--154",

editor = "Mahzarin Banaji and Susan Gelman",

booktitle = "Navigating the social world.",

publisher = "Oxford University Press",

address = "United Kingdom",

}

Social Cognition: Making us smart, or sometimes making us dumb? Overimitation, conformity, nonconformity, and the transmission of culture in ape and child. / Whiten, Andrew.
Navigating the social world.: What infants, children, and other species can teach us.. ed. / Mahzarin Banaji; Susan Gelman. United States of America: Oxford University Press, 2013. p. 150-154.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

TY - CHAP

T1 - Social Cognition

T2 - Making us smart, or sometimes making us dumb? Overimitation, conformity, nonconformity, and the transmission of culture in ape and child.

AU - Whiten, Andrew

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

KW - EVOLUTION

KW - SOCIAL COGNITION

KW - CONFORMITY

KW - nonconformity

KW - overimitation

KW - NONHUMAN PRIMATE

KW - APE

KW - Cultural evolution

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-0-19-989071-2

SP - 150

EP - 154

BT - Navigating the social world.

A2 - Banaji, Mahzarin

A2 - Gelman, Susan

PB - Oxford University Press

CY - United States of America

ER -