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social information bias: a standalone construct

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socialinformation bias1 CONSTRUCTSocial information biasMESOUDI · CULTURAL EVOLUTION

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the tendency for gossip-like information about social relationships to be passed on more faithfully than nonsocial information in transmission chains.

In cultural evolution, social information bias refers to the tendency for gossip-like information about social relationships to be passed on more faithfully than nonsocial information in transmission chains. This meaning comes from Mesoudi (2006) in British Journal of Psychology.[1]

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  1. Mesoudi, A., Whiten, A., & Dunbar, R. (2006). A bias for social information in human cultural transmission. British Journal of Psychology, 97(3), 405-423. https://doi.org/10.1348/000712605x85871

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