Prestige and content biases together shape the cultural transmission of narratives
| Autor: | Alarna N. Samarasinghe, Michael C. Gavin, Sean G. Roberts, Richard E. W. Berl, Fiona M. Jordan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Cultural Studies
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| Zdroj: | Evolutionary Human Sciences SocArXiv Papers University of Bristol-PURE |
| ISSN: | 2513-843X |
| Popis: | Context-based cultural transmission biases such as prestige are thought to have been a primary driver in shaping the dynamics of human cultural evolution. However, few empirical studies have measured the importance of prestige relative to other effects, such as the content biases present within transmitted information. Here, we report the findings of an experimental transmission study designed to compare the simultaneous effects of a high- or low-prestige model with the presence of content containing social, survival, emotional, moral, rational, or counterintuitive information. Results from multimodel inference reveal that prestige is a significant factor in determining salience and recall, but that several content biases, specifically social, survival, negative emotional, and biological counterintuitive information, are significantly more influential. Further, we find evidence that prestige serves as a conditional learning strategy when no content cues are available. Our results demonstrate that content biases serve a vital and underappreciated role in cultural transmission Introduction Methods - Experimental protocol - Participants - Story production - Recordings - Data coding and transcription - Data analysis - Ethics statement Results - Sample demographics - Participants showed preferential recall of biased information - Content biases were more influential than prestige bias - Transmission biases explain little variance in recall Discussion - Prestige bias has a minor effect on transmission - Prestige is unconsciously employed as a secondary bias - Content biases have distinct effects - Narrative structural features may aid transmission - Implications for the understanding of transmission |
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