Title |
The Maintenance of Traditions in Marmosets: Individual Habit, Not Social Conformity? A Field Experiment
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, February 2009
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0004472 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Mario B. Pesendorfer, Tina Gunhold, Nicola Schiel, Antonio Souto, Ludwig Huber, Friederike Range |
Abstract |
Social conformity is a cornerstone of human culture because it accelerates and maintains the spread of behaviour within a group. Few empirical studies have investigated the role of social conformity in the maintenance of traditions despite an increasing body of literature on the formation of behavioural patterns in non-human animals. The current report presents a field experiment with free-ranging marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) which investigated whether social conformity is necessary for the maintenance of behavioural patterns within groups or whether individual effects such as habit formation would suffice. |
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France | 1 | 33% |
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Austria | 2 | 2% |
Hungary | 1 | <1% |
Portugal | 1 | <1% |
Romania | 1 | <1% |
South Africa | 1 | <1% |
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Researcher | 22 | 22% |
Student > Master | 22 | 22% |
Student > Bachelor | 9 | 9% |
Professor | 7 | 7% |
Other | 7 | 7% |
Unknown | 8 | 8% |
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Psychology | 14 | 14% |
Social Sciences | 4 | 4% |
Neuroscience | 4 | 4% |
Environmental Science | 4 | 4% |
Other | 8 | 8% |
Unknown | 13 | 13% |