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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Norms emerge through iterated learning.

Scott Partington, Rachana Kamtekar, Shaun Nichols

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Norms emerge through iterated learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Scott PartingtonDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK CB2 3RH.ORCID 0000-0002-1743-3115
Rachana KamtekarDepartment of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.
Shaun NicholsDepartment of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Injunctive norms are universal: Every culture has rules that specify what actions are forbidden, obligatory, or permitted. Where do all of these norms come from? In this paper, we identify a mechanism of cultural transmission that can explain the emergence of injunctive norms. In particular, we develop an

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LearningSocial NormsAdultFemaleHumansMaleYoung Adultcultural evolutioniterated learningmoral psychologynorms

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PMID40680030
PMCPMC12304962

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