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Evolution of Cooperation Via Covert Signaling
Paul E. Smaldino, Thomas J. Flamson, Richard McElreath
Human sociality depends upon the benefits of mutual aid and extensive communication. However mutual aid is made difficult by the problems of coordinating diverse norms and preferen…
Adoption as a Social Marker: Innovation Diffusion with Outgroup Aversion
Paul E. Smaldino, Marco A. Janssen, Vicken Hillis +1
Social identities are among the key factors driving behavior in complex societies. Signals of social identity are known to influence individual behaviors in the adoption of innovat…
Replication, Communication, and the Population Dynamics of Scientific Discovery
Richard McElreath, Paul E. Smaldino
Many published research results are false, and controversy continues over the roles of replication and publication policy in improving the reliability of research. Addressing these…
Does Learning Imply a Decrease in the Entropy of Behavior?
Paul E. Smaldino
Shannon's information entropy measures of the uncertainty of an event's outcome. If learning about a system reflects a decrease in uncertainty, then a plausible intuition is that l…