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Action sequences, habits, and attention in copying strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2022

Omar D. Perez Open the ORCID record for Omar D. Perez [Opens in a new window]
Omar D. Perez*
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Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, 8370439 Santiago, Chile omar.perez.r@uchile.cl Facultad de Administracion y Economia, CESS-Santiago, University of Santiago Chile, 9170022 Santiago, Chile
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Abstract

Understanding how culture evolves in society is an extremely difficult task. The bifocal stance theory (BST) deploys two copying strategies which can be linked to dual-system theories of behavior. BST would benefit from incorporating results from these theories, such as the evolution of attention to goals or steps of a behavioral sequence, and the role of the environment in prompting different copying strategies.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e265
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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