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cultural attraction theory: a standalone construct

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Cognitive science of religion

the view that cultural forms stay stable because transmission is biased toward certain attractor forms by cognitive and ecological factors, not because copying is exact.

In cognitive science of religion, cultural attraction theory refers to the view that cultural forms stay stable because transmission is biased toward certain attractor forms by cognitive and ecological factors, not because copying is exact. This meaning comes from Claidière (2014) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.[1]

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  1. Claidière, N., Scott-Phillips, T. C., & Sperber, D. (2014). How Darwinian is cultural evolution? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 369(1642), 20130368. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0368

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