Evidence for Weak or Linear Conformity but Not for Hyper-Conformity in an Everyday Social Learning Context

Nicolas Claidière; Mark Bowler; Andrew Whiten

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030970

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Evidence for Weak or Linear Conformity but Not for Hyper-Conformity in an Everyday Social Learning Context

Nicolas Claidière ,

* E-mail: nicolas.claidiere@normalesup.org

Affiliation Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Mark Bowler,

Affiliation Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Andrew Whiten

Affiliation Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Evidence for Weak or Linear Conformity but Not for Hyper-Conformity in an Everyday Social Learning Context

Nicolas Claidière,
Mark Bowler,
Andrew Whiten

Published: February 20, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030970

About the Authors

Nicolas Claidière

* E-mail: nicolas.claidiere@normalesup.org

Affiliation Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

Mark Bowler

Affiliation Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

Andrew Whiten

Affiliation Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC MB AW. Performed the experiments: NC MB. Analyzed the data: NC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AW. Wrote the paper: NC MB AW.

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