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The evolution of high-fidelity social learning
Marcel Montrey, Thomas R. Shultz
A defining feature of human culture is that knowledge and technology continually improve over time. Such cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) probably depends far more heavily on ho…
Outgroup Homogeneity Bias Causes Ingroup Favoritism
Marcel Montrey, Thomas R. Shultz
Ingroup favoritism, the tendency to favor ingroup over outgroup, is often explained as a product of intergroup conflict, or correlations between group tags and behavior. Such accou…
Neural-network simulations of memory consolidation and reconsolidation
Peter Helfer, Thomas R. Shultz
In the mammalian brain newly acquired memories depend on the hippocampus for maintenance and recall, but over time these functions are taken over by the neocortex through a process…
Over-representation of Extreme Events in Decision-Making: A Rational Metacognitive Account
Ardavan S. Nobandegani, Kevin da Silva Castanheira, A. Ross Otto +1
The Availability bias, manifested in the over-representation of extreme eventualities in decision-making, is a well-known cognitive bias, and is generally taken as evidence of huma…
Cooperative Intergroup Mating Can Overcome Ethnocentrism in Diverse Populations
Caitlin J. Mouri, Thomas R. Shultz
Ethnocentrism is a behavioral strategy seen on every scale of social interaction. Game-theory models demonstrate that evolution selects ethnocentrism because it boosts cooperation,…