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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"social transmission"”.
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Conditioned taste and visual aversions in chicks: effects of social transmission of acquired behavior
Studies involving social learning have shown that social interactions are influential in directing an individual's behavior toward relatively neutral stimuli. The present study investigated the possibility that social interactions direct an individual's behavior toward aversive stimuli. Following …
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Early human social transmission during Marine Isotope Stage 5: a perspective from the Kalahari Basin
The social transmission of cultural information is widely recognized as a crucial component contributing to the survival and prosperity of our species. This thesis studies lithic technological systems to assess the extent of the transmission of cultural information between different early human …
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The social transmission of associative fear in rats : mechanisms and applications of fear conditioning by proxy
… disorders. Fear can also be acquired from a social context, such as through observing the fear expression of a conspecific (Mineka et al., 1984, Mineka and Cook, 1993, Olsson et al., 2007, Olsson and Phelps, 2007). Utilizing a modified demonstrator-observer paradigm (fear conditioning by …
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Towards an understanding of the self-harming behaviours of vulnerable young people
… the empirical literature investigating the psychosocial risk factors associated with self-harm and suicide among looked-after children (LAC). Systematic appraisal of fourteen studies highlighted several demographic, socio-environmental and psychological factors thought to place LAC at an increased …
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Effects of a Riverine Dispersal Barrier on Cultural Similarity in Wild Bornean Orangutans (Pongo Pygmaeus Wurmbii)
… because wild populations exhibit a wide range of sociality, which has been linked to opportunities for social learning. Comparisons between the Tuanan and Sungai Lading populations indicated that cultural variants observed at only one site clustered significantly by population, although only …
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Predators vs. Prey: The information ecology of warning signals
… that observing predation events of others (social information) may also shape selection for prey defences and help resolve this puzzle. Here I use great tits and blue tits as model predators to investigate what influences predators’ decisions to use different types of information when …
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Learning of Dietary Cues By Embryos and Larvae of Ringed Salamanders (Ambystoma Annulatum)
… experiment indicates that information can be socially transmitted among larvae.
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Novel Applications of Geospatial Analysis in the Modeling of Infectious Diseases
At the intersection of geography and public health, the field of spatial epidemiology seeks to use the tools of geospatial analysis to answer questions about disease. In this work we explore two areas: the use of geostatistical modeling as an extension of niche modeling, and the use of mobility …