EITM: Cultural Evolution and Human Behavior: Linking Theory and Empirical Research

EITM：文化进化与人类行为：理论与实证研究的联系

• 批准号: 0340148
• 负责人: Peter Richerson
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2006-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0340148&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EITM; Cultural; Evolution; Human; Behavior

This Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) project will examine two experiments designed to test models of social learning, which are the foundations of cultural evolution. These will examine conformity in five person groups with changing environmental parameters over time. The project will create a computer laboratory with local area networks to demonstrate how experiments can be used to test the theoretical underpinnings of models of cultural evolution. Subjects will be organized into five-person groups run simultaneously in the computer laboratory. Each subject will have to choose between two behavioral options, providing different payoffs, to be paid in real dollars at the end of the experiment. The broader impacts of this work pertain to the fact that rapid social, economic, political and technological changes are occurring in the majority of society in the world, and increases in our basic knowledge of these processes will be valuable to decision makers as well as to the educated person concerned to understand contemporary life.

这个理论模型的经验意义（EITM）项目将研究两个旨在测试社会学习模型的实验，这是文化进化的基础。这些将检查五个人组随着时间的推移而改变的环境参数的一致性。该项目将建立一个带有局域网的计算机实验室，以演示如何利用实验来检验文化进化模型的理论基础。受试者将被分成五人小组，在计算机实验室中同时运行。每个受试者都必须在两个行为选项中做出选择，这两个选项提供不同的回报，在实验结束时以真实的美元支付。这项工作的更广泛影响是，世界上大多数社会正在发生迅速的社会、经济、政治和技术变革，增加我们对这些进程的基本知识，对决策者和有关的受过教育的人了解当代生活都很有价值。