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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 (Jacobs & Campbell, 1961).”
From Durkheim, Indoctrinability and the Moral Ambivalence of Human Sociality (2026) · cites this paper as Jacobs & Campbell, 1961
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“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.”
From Durkheim, Indoctrinability and the Moral Ambivalence of Human Sociality (2026) · cites this paper as Jacobs & Campbell, 1961
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Effects of Group Pressure Upon the Modification and Distortion of Judgments
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Biological and cultural evolution some analogies and explorations
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“One method for simulating cultural evolution was developed by Gerard et al. (1956) and Jacobs and Campbell (1961).”
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Metadata
- 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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