The perpetuation of an arbitrary tradition through several generations of a laboratory microculture.
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If the experimenter's confederates become successively replaced with naive persons, the false belief in the movement seems to remain stable.
“If the experimenter's confederates become successively replaced with naive persons, the false belief in the movement seems to remain stable (Jacobs & Campbell, 1961).”
From Durkheim, Indoctrinability and the Moral Ambivalence of Human Sociality (2026) · cites this paper as Jacobs & Campbell, 1961
The group can establish a false belief which is then perpetuated over subsequent generations-the false belief becomes established as a culture.
“In other words, the group can establish a false belief which is then perpetuated over subsequent generations -the false belief becomes established as a culture.”
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BackgroundConformity: definitions, types and evolutionary grounding.
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“In the context of the Sherif experiment design, Jacobs and Campbell (1961) have shown how norms can be transmitted across “generations” of subjects.”
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- Authors
- Jacobs, R. C., & Campbell, D. T.
- Affiliations
- Northwestern University (US)
- ORCID
- Jacobs, Robert C.
- Venue
- The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
- Published
- 1961-05
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 649-658
- ISSN
- 0096-851X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2115224549
- Semantic Scholar
- eda49ba6fe39644acb19fa627103f5c127ad690c
- Cited by
- 264
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Keywords
- intergenerational transmission, cultural transmission, social learning
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Psychology, Social
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