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  • Human Evolution
  • Social Psychology

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  • Social learning is crucial for human adaptation and cultural evolution.
  • Traditionally viewed as universal, social learning varies across individuals and populations.
  • The drivers of this variation in social learning are not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of social and economic interdependence on social learning.
  • To determine if varying degrees of interdependence influence social learning strategies.

Main Methods:

  • An experimental decision-making task was used to compare individual and social learning.
  • Three distinct populations within a single ethnic group, differing in subsistence interdependence, were studied.

Main Results:

  • Interdependent pastoralist and urban populations exhibited significantly higher social learning propensities.
  • Independent horticulturalist populations showed a greater reliance on individual payoff information.
  • Economic and social interdependence strongly correlates with increased social learning.

Conclusions:

  • Everyday social and economic practices shape human social learning strategies.
  • Human cognitive flexibility allows adaptation of social learning to local ecological conditions.
  • Changes in subsistence styles can alter reliance on social learning, impacting societal adaptation.