Cultural variation in the use of overimitation by the Aka and Ngandu of the Congo Basin.
Studies in Western cultures have observed that both children and adults tend to overimitate, copying causally irrelevant actions in the presence of clear causal information. Investigation of this feature in non-Western groups has found little difference cross-culturally in the frequency or manner wi...
Main Authors: | Richard E W Berl, Barry S Hewlett |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4376636?pdf=render |
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