John Kendal
Biographic Data
| ID | 978383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Kendal |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Kendal |
| SIGNATURE | KENDAL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8644-3117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do social learning strategies affect the adoption of sustainable behavior? A mixed methods study
Interventions using social norms to encourage sustainable behavior are common, but few explicitly apply cultural evolutionary theory or consider specific social learning strategies. Using a survey, vignette-primed choice test, and semi-structured interviews, we explored how a student population used and were influenced by, social information in their sustainable behavior. We focused on three social learning strategies: conformity, payoff bias and…
Investigating the effects of social information on spite in an online game
While humans are highly cooperative, they can also behave spitefully. Yet spite remains understudied. Spite can be normatively driven and while previous experiments have found some evidence that cooperation and punishment may spread via social learning, no experiments have considered the social transmission of spiteful behaviour. Here we present an online experiment where, following an opportunity to earn wealth, we asked participants to choose a…
Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511
This case study contributes to recent attempts to apply “phylomemetic” methods derived from computational biology to oral traditions, where the aim is to trace the mutation and diversification of folk narratives as they get passed on from generation to generation and spread from society to society. Our study focuses on one of the most famous and widespread tales in the folktale record: Cinderella. Thousands of Cinderella-like stories have been do…
The role of population size in folk tune complexity
Demography, particularly population size, plays a key role in cultural complexity. However, the relationship between population size and complexity appears to vary across domains: while studies of technology typically find a positive correlation, the opposite is true for language, and the role of population size in complexity in the arts remains to be established. Here, we investigate the relationship between population size and complexity in mus…
Does Group Contact Shape Styles of Pictorial Representation? A Case Study of Australian Rock Art
Image-making is a nearly universal human behavior, yet the visual strategies and conventions to represent things in pictures vary greatly over time and space. In particular, pictorial styles can differ in their degree of figurativeness, varying from intersubjectively recognizable representations of things to very stylized and abstract forms. Are there any patterns to this variability, and what might its ecological causes be? Experimental studies …
Style of pictorial representation is shaped by intergroup contact
Unknotting the interactive effects of learning processes on cultural evolutionary dynamics
Cultural complexity and demography: The case of folktales
Temporal Relationships Between Individualism-Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia: A Word Frequency Analysis Using the Google Ngram Corpus
Collectivism and individualism are commonly used to delineate societies that differ in their cultural values and patterns of social behavior, prioritizing the relative importance of the group and the individual, respectively. Collectivist and individualist expression is likely to be intricately linked with the political and economic history of a society. Scholars have proposed mechanisms for both positive and negative correlations between economi…
Gene–Culture Coevolution
Human niche construction in interdisciplinary focus
Niche construction is an endogenous causal process in evolution, reciprocal to the causal process of natural selection. It works by adding ecological inheritance , comprising the inheritance of natural selection pressures previously modified by niche construction, to genetic inheritance in evolution. Human niche construction modifies selection pressures in environments in ways that affect both human evolution, and the evolution of other species. …
The niche construction perspective: Implications for evolution and human behaviour
The vibrancy of the field of evolution and human behaviour belies the fact that the majority of social scientists are deeply unhappy with evolutionary accounts of human behaviour. In part, this reflects a problem within evolutionary biology: neo-Darwinism fails to recognize a fundamental cause of evolutionary change, "niche construction", by which organisms modify environmental states, and consequently selection pressures, thereby acting as co-di…
"Postlude to "The Kreutzer Sonata: Tolstoj and the Debate on Sexual Morality in Russian Literature in the 1890's
Postlude to the Kreutzer Sonata: Tolstoj and the Debate on Sexual Morality in Russian Literature in the 1890s
The niche construction perspective: Implications for evolution and human behaviour
The vibrancy of the field of evolution and human behaviour belies the fact that the majority of social scientists are deeply unhappy with evolutionary accounts of human behaviour. In part, this reflects a problem within evolutionary biology: neo-Darwinism fails to recognize a fundamental cause of evolutionary change, "niche construction", by which organisms modify environmental states, and consequently selection pressures, thereby acting as co-di…
Style of pictorial representation is shaped by intergroup contact
Unknotting the interactive effects of learning processes on cultural evolutionary dynamics
Does Group Contact Shape Styles of Pictorial Representation? A Case Study of Australian Rock Art
Image-making is a nearly universal human behavior, yet the visual strategies and conventions to represent things in pictures vary greatly over time and space. In particular, pictorial styles can differ in their degree of figurativeness, varying from intersubjectively recognizable representations of things to very stylized and abstract forms. Are there any patterns to this variability, and what might its ecological causes be? Experimental studies …
Temporal Relationships Between Individualism-Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia: A Word Frequency Analysis Using the Google Ngram Corpus
Collectivism and individualism are commonly used to delineate societies that differ in their cultural values and patterns of social behavior, prioritizing the relative importance of the group and the individual, respectively. Collectivist and individualist expression is likely to be intricately linked with the political and economic history of a society. Scholars have proposed mechanisms for both positive and negative correlations between economi…
Postlude to the Kreutzer Sonata: Tolstoj and the Debate on Sexual Morality in Russian Literature in the 1890s
"Postlude to "The Kreutzer Sonata: Tolstoj and the Debate on Sexual Morality in Russian Literature in the 1890's
The niche construction perspective: Implications for evolution and human behaviour
The vibrancy of the field of evolution and human behaviour belies the fact that the majority of social scientists are deeply unhappy with evolutionary accounts of human behaviour. In part, this reflects a problem within evolutionary biology: neo-Darwinism fails to recognize a fundamental cause of evolutionary change, "niche construction", by which organisms modify environmental states, and consequently selection pressures, thereby acting as co-di…
Human niche construction in interdisciplinary focus
Niche construction is an endogenous causal process in evolution, reciprocal to the causal process of natural selection. It works by adding ecological inheritance , comprising the inheritance of natural selection pressures previously modified by niche construction, to genetic inheritance in evolution. Human niche construction modifies selection pressures in environments in ways that affect both human evolution, and the evolution of other species. …
Gene–Culture Coevolution
Temporal Relationships Between Individualism-Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia: A Word Frequency Analysis Using the Google Ngram Corpus
Collectivism and individualism are commonly used to delineate societies that differ in their cultural values and patterns of social behavior, prioritizing the relative importance of the group and the individual, respectively. Collectivist and individualist expression is likely to be intricately linked with the political and economic history of a society. Scholars have proposed mechanisms for both positive and negative correlations between economi…
Cultural complexity and demography: The case of folktales
Style of pictorial representation is shaped by intergroup contact
Unknotting the interactive effects of learning processes on cultural evolutionary dynamics
The role of population size in folk tune complexity
Demography, particularly population size, plays a key role in cultural complexity. However, the relationship between population size and complexity appears to vary across domains: while studies of technology typically find a positive correlation, the opposite is true for language, and the role of population size in complexity in the arts remains to be established. Here, we investigate the relationship between population size and complexity in mus…
Does Group Contact Shape Styles of Pictorial Representation? A Case Study of Australian Rock Art
Image-making is a nearly universal human behavior, yet the visual strategies and conventions to represent things in pictures vary greatly over time and space. In particular, pictorial styles can differ in their degree of figurativeness, varying from intersubjectively recognizable representations of things to very stylized and abstract forms. Are there any patterns to this variability, and what might its ecological causes be? Experimental studies …
Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511
This case study contributes to recent attempts to apply “phylomemetic” methods derived from computational biology to oral traditions, where the aim is to trace the mutation and diversification of folk narratives as they get passed on from generation to generation and spread from society to society. Our study focuses on one of the most famous and widespread tales in the folktale record: Cinderella. Thousands of Cinderella-like stories have been do…
Investigating the effects of social information on spite in an online game
While humans are highly cooperative, they can also behave spitefully. Yet spite remains understudied. Spite can be normatively driven and while previous experiments have found some evidence that cooperation and punishment may spread via social learning, no experiments have considered the social transmission of spiteful behaviour. Here we present an online experiment where, following an opportunity to earn wealth, we asked participants to choose a…
Do social learning strategies affect the adoption of sustainable behavior? A mixed methods study
Interventions using social norms to encourage sustainable behavior are common, but few explicitly apply cultural evolutionary theory or consider specific social learning strategies. Using a survey, vignette-primed choice test, and semi-structured interviews, we explored how a student population used and were influenced by, social information in their sustainable behavior. We focused on three social learning strategies: conformity, payoff bias and…
Language and cultural evolution (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (5 works) · Evolutionary biology (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Demography (3 works)