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Revisiting an extant framework: Concerns about culture and task generalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2022

Frankie T. K. Fong Open the ORCID record for Frankie T. K. Fong [Opens in a new window] ,
Mark Nielsen Open the ORCID record for Mark Nielsen [Opens in a new window]  and
Cristine H. Legare Open the ORCID record for Cristine H. Legare [Opens in a new window]
Frankie T. K. Fong
Affiliation:
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany frankie_fong@eva.mpg.de https://www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-cultural-psychology/staff/frankie-fong/ Early Cognitive Development Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia m.nielsen@psy.uq.edu.au https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1104
Mark Nielsen
Affiliation:
Early Cognitive Development Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia m.nielsen@psy.uq.edu.au https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1104 Faculty of Humanities, The University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2092, South Africa
Cristine H. Legare
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Center for Applied Cognitive Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA legare@austin.utexas.edu http://cristinelegare.com
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Abstract

The target article elaborates upon an extant theoretical framework, “Imitation and Innovation: The Dual Engines of Cultural Learning.” We raise three major concerns: (1) There is limited discussion of cross-cultural universality and variation; (2) overgeneralization of overimitation and omission of other social learning types; and (3) selective imitation in infants and toddlers is not discussed.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e257
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