期刊
EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
卷 36, 期 3, 页码 191-198出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.11.002
关键词
Social learning; Overimitation; Cultural transmission; Ritual; Normative behavior
资金
- Australian Research Council [DP140101410]
Children will comprehensively copy others' actions despite manifest perceptual cues to their causal ineffectiveness. In experiment 1 we demonstrate that children will overimitate in this way even when the arbitrary actions copied are used as part of a process to achieve an outcome for someone else. We subsequently show in experiment 2 that children will omit arbitrary actions, but only if the actions are to achieve a clear, functional goal for a naive adult. These findings highlight how readily children adopt what appear to be conventional behaviors, even when faced with a clear demonstration of their negligible functional value. We show how a child's strong, early-emerging propensity for overimitation reveals a sensitivity for ritualistic behavior. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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