ReviewiScience2021
Organized to learn: the influence of social structure on social learning opportunities in a group.
Review in iScience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Social relationships promote access to food and information in wild jackdaws.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2026Article
- Ontogeny of Diet and Behavior of a Wild, Critically Endangered Lemur (Indri indri).American journal of primatology · 2025Article
- Better together than alone: sociality mitigates the negative impact of early family disruption on adult problem-solving performance in zebra finches.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Insect applications to open wounds by chimpanzees in the wild: first insights from East African chimpanzees.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Chimpanzees employ context-specific behavioral strategies within fission-fusion societies.Primates; journal of primatology · 2024Article
- Human and nonhuman norms: a dimensional framework.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Orangutan males make increased use of social learning opportunities, when resource availability is high.iScience · 2024Article
- Group-level signatures in bonobo sociality.Evolutionary human sciences · 2024Article
- Social uncertainty promotes signal complexity during approaches in wild chimpanzees (Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Bullying as an advertisement of social dominance in common waxbills.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Social network inheritance and differentiation in wild baboons.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Biased cultural transmission of a social custom in chimpanzees.Science advances · 2023Article
- Blowing the lid off! Bottle-directed, extractive foraging strategies in synurbic bonnet macaquesFrontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Social learning, which is a mechanism that allows an individual to acquire skills from other individuals, occurs in a social context. Therefore, factors that influence social context, like social structure, will impact social learning opportunities. This review explores how features of social structure affect social learning opportunities in primates, either through their relationship with social tolerance or through the number of social learning models. Features that are investigated in this review and that we hypothesize affect social learning opportunities are parental investment, dominance hierarchy, nepotism, social bonds, dispersal, group size, fission-fusion dynamics, and sex ratio. For most of these features we find evidence, but support varies. Of all primate species, only humans show all the requirements of an optimal social structure to promote social learning. Future research into social learning and culture should not overlook the social context in which it takes place.
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