Culture's building blocks: investigating cultural evolution in a LEGO construction task.
Culture's building blocks: investigating cultural evolution in a LEGO construction task.
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01017
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Roepstorff A
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作者：
McGraw JJ;Wallot S;Mitkidis P;Roepstorff A
关于文化概念的最重要但理论上最棘手的问题之一是文化的演变和传播：一个群体针对不变挑战所积累的解决方案如何随着时间的推移而发展和持续。但目前，将进化论应用于文化的概念仍然只是一种暗示性的比喻。尽管进化论的现代综合为生物适应性的选择和传播提供了一个全面的科学框架，但令人信服的文化进化理论尚未出现。理论家面临的最大挑战之一是确定适当的时间尺度和分析单位，以便将难以处理的庞大而复杂的“文化”现象减少为其组成部分“构件”。在本文中，我们通过分析人们在一系列乐高拼搭任务中制定惯例的方式，提出了一个科学调查文化过程的模型。这些数据揭示了连续建造过程中建造砖块的选择以及汽车设计特征的令人惊讶的模式。我们的研究结果支持了一种通过交互式乐高设计和组装的缩影来研究文化发展和传播的新颖方法。
One of the most essential but theoretically vexing issues regarding the notion of culture is that of cultural evolution and transmission: how a group’s accumulated solutions to invariant challenges develop and persevere over time. But at the moment, the notion of applying evolutionary theory to culture remains little more than a suggestive trope. Whereas the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory has provided an encompassing scientific framework for the selection and transmission of biological adaptations, a convincing theory of cultural evolution has yet to emerge. One of the greatest challenges for theorists is identifying the appropriate time scales and units of analysis in order to reduce the intractably large and complex phenomenon of “culture” into its component “building blocks.” In this paper, we present a model for scientifically investigating cultural processes by analyzing the ways people develop conventions in a series of LEGO construction tasks. The data revealed a surprising pattern in the selection of building bricks as well as features of car design across consecutive building sessions. Our findings support a novel methodology for studying the development and transmission of culture through the microcosm of interactive LEGO design and assembly.
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DOI：
10.1016/b978-0-12-407187-2.00002-2
发表时间：
2013-01-01
期刊：
PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MOTIVATION, VOL 59
影响因子：
--
作者：
Dale, Rick;Fusaroli, Riccardo;Richardson, Daniel C.
通讯作者：
Richardson, Daniel C.
影响因子：
4.3
作者：
Clark, HH;Krych, MA
通讯作者：
Krych, MA
影响因子：
2.4
作者：
Gallagher, Shaun
通讯作者：
Gallagher, Shaun
DOI：
10.1098/rstb.2009.0134
发表时间：
2009-11-12
影响因子：
6.3
作者：
Boyd, Robert;Richerson, Peter J.
通讯作者：
Richerson, Peter J.