4 papers
Popularity Feedback Constrains Innovation in Cultural Markets
Lucas Gautheron, Raja Marjieh, Dalton C. Conley +5
Real-world creative processes ranging from art to science rely on social feedback-loops between selection and creation. Yet, the effects of popularity feedback on collective creati…
How constraints on editing affects cultural evolution
Ofer Tchernichovski, Eitan Globerson, Peter Harrison +1
When is it beneficial to constrain creativity? Creativity thrives with freedom, but when people collaborate to create artifacts, there is tension between giving individuals freedom…
Reasoning within and between collective action problems
Ofer Tchernichovski, Seth Frey, Dalton C. Conley +1
Understanding cooperation in social systems is challenging because the ever-changing rules that govern societies interact with individual actions, resulting in intricate collective…
Institutional Preferences in the Laboratory
Qiankun Zhong, Nori Jacoby, Ofer Tchernichovski +1
Getting a group to adopt cooperative norms is an enduring challenge. But in real-world settings, individuals don't just passively accept static environments, they act both within a…