Christine A Caldwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1604420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine A Caldwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine A |
| FAMILY NAME | Caldwell |
| SIGNATURE | CALDWELL C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7362-2554 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cognitive Foundations of Teaching
The propensity to teach is vital to human cultural evolution and to our ecological dominance of the planet, but its cognitive foundations remain poorly understood. Traditional explanations argue that teaching hinges on particular cognitive pre‐requisites, such as Theory of Mind. However, such explanations conflate the function of teaching—promoting learning in others—with how it is achieved, and overlook the role of comparatively simple mechanism…
Commentary on
Children's use of social information from multiple models
Population size has been proposed to promote cumulative culture in humans. Experimental evidence from adult humans suggests that one explanatory mechanism might involve combining beneficial information from multiple models. However, it is possible that such combinatory social learning requires cognitive capacities restricted to adult humans. In our task, children aged 5–10 were exposed to two models who consecutively searched a 3×3 array for rewa…
Culture, Cumulative
Cumulative culture can refer to cumulative cultural evolution as well as to the products of this evolution. Cumulative culture simultaneously increases the efficiency of the trait as well as preserving changes to the form of the trait itself. It is often intergenerational and can lead to traits that are no longer inventable by a naive individual. The exact necessary and sufficient mechanisms of cumulative culture are still debated. While modern h…
Experimental Studies of Cumulative Culture in Modern Humans
Observer age and the social transmission of attractiveness in humans
Being paired with an attractive partner increases perceptual judgements of attractiveness in humans. We tested experimentally for prestige bias, whereby individuals follow the choices of prestigious others. Women rated the attractiveness of photographs of target males which were paired with either popular or less popular model female partners. We found that pairing a photo of a man with a woman presented as his partner positively influenced the a…
Opportunity to assimilate and pressure to discriminate can generate cultural divergence in the laboratory
Effects of Partner Beauty on Opposite-Sex Attractiveness Judgments
Conservatism in laboratory microsocieties
Neighbor effects in marmosets
Researchers have demonstrated the neighbor effect for affiliative and agonistic neighbor vocalizations in captive chimpanzees. We extend the investigation of the neighbor effect to New World monkeys, Callithrix jacchus . We collected data on vocalizations and behaviors of 31 focal individuals and concurrent neighbor vocalization within three behavioral categories: intragroup and intergroup aggression and intragroup affiliation. We investigated wh…
Understanding Behavioral Traditions in Primates
Social influence in human face preference
Experimental models for testing hypotheses about cumulative cultural evolution
Beliefs About Teaching in Montessori and Non-Montessori Preschool Teachers
Observer age and the social transmission of attractiveness in humans
Being paired with an attractive partner increases perceptual judgements of attractiveness in humans. We tested experimentally for prestige bias, whereby individuals follow the choices of prestigious others. Women rated the attractiveness of photographs of target males which were paired with either popular or less popular model female partners. We found that pairing a photo of a man with a woman presented as his partner positively influenced the a…
Effects of Partner Beauty on Opposite-Sex Attractiveness Judgments
Understanding Behavioral Traditions in Primates
Beliefs About Teaching in Montessori and Non-Montessori Preschool Teachers
Social influence in human face preference
Experimental models for testing hypotheses about cumulative cultural evolution
Understanding Behavioral Traditions in Primates
Conservatism in laboratory microsocieties
Neighbor effects in marmosets
Researchers have demonstrated the neighbor effect for affiliative and agonistic neighbor vocalizations in captive chimpanzees. We extend the investigation of the neighbor effect to New World monkeys, Callithrix jacchus . We collected data on vocalizations and behaviors of 31 focal individuals and concurrent neighbor vocalization within three behavioral categories: intragroup and intergroup aggression and intragroup affiliation. We investigated wh…
Effects of Partner Beauty on Opposite-Sex Attractiveness Judgments
Opportunity to assimilate and pressure to discriminate can generate cultural divergence in the laboratory
Experimental Studies of Cumulative Culture in Modern Humans
Observer age and the social transmission of attractiveness in humans
Being paired with an attractive partner increases perceptual judgements of attractiveness in humans. We tested experimentally for prestige bias, whereby individuals follow the choices of prestigious others. Women rated the attractiveness of photographs of target males which were paired with either popular or less popular model female partners. We found that pairing a photo of a man with a woman presented as his partner positively influenced the a…
Culture, Cumulative
Cumulative culture can refer to cumulative cultural evolution as well as to the products of this evolution. Cumulative culture simultaneously increases the efficiency of the trait as well as preserving changes to the form of the trait itself. It is often intergenerational and can lead to traits that are no longer inventable by a naive individual. The exact necessary and sufficient mechanisms of cumulative culture are still debated. While modern h…
Children's use of social information from multiple models
Population size has been proposed to promote cumulative culture in humans. Experimental evidence from adult humans suggests that one explanatory mechanism might involve combining beneficial information from multiple models. However, it is possible that such combinatory social learning requires cognitive capacities restricted to adult humans. In our task, children aged 5–10 were exposed to two models who consecutively searched a 3×3 array for rewa…
Commentary on
The Cognitive Foundations of Teaching
The propensity to teach is vital to human cultural evolution and to our ecological dominance of the planet, but its cognitive foundations remain poorly understood. Traditional explanations argue that teaching hinges on particular cognitive pre‐requisites, such as Theory of Mind. However, such explanations conflate the function of teaching—promoting learning in others—with how it is achieved, and overlook the role of comparatively simple mechanism…
Psychology (11 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · Language and cultural evolution (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (4 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (4 works)