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| Title |
Where Culture Takes Hold: “Overimitation” and Its Flexible Deployment in Western, Aboriginal, and Bushmen Children
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| Published in |
Child Development, July 2014
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| DOI | 10.1111/cdev.12265 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mark Nielsen, Ilana Mushin, Keyan Tomaselli, Andrew Whiten |
| Abstract |
Children often "overimitate," comprehensively copying others' actions despite manifest perceptual cues to their causal ineffectuality. The inflexibility of this behavior renders its adaptive significance difficult to apprehend. This study explored the boundaries of overimitation in 3- to 6-year-old children of three distinct cultures: Westernized, urban Australians (N = 64 in Experiment 1; N = 19 in Experiment 2) and remote communities of South African Bushmen (N = 64) and Australian Aborigines (N = 19). Children overimitated at high frequency in all communities and generalized what they had learned about techniques and object affordances from one object to another. Overimitation thus provides a powerful means of acquiring and flexibly deploying cultural knowledge. The potency of such social learning was also documented compared to opportunities for exploration and practice. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 19 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 16% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| Italy | 1 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 9 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 9 | 47% |
| Members of the public | 9 | 47% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 118 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 116 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 34 | 29% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 11% |
| Researcher | 7 | 6% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 25 | 21% |
| Unknown | 18 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 53 | 45% |
| Social Sciences | 15 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 3% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 12 | 10% |
| Unknown | 25 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 April 2020.
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#3,123,677
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Outputs from Child Development
#1,312
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#30,118
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Outputs of similar age from Child Development
#13
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