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Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament
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It Pays to Be a Copy Cat: Does it pay to copy what others do? Rendell et al. (p. 208 ) elected to copy Robert Axelrod's 1979 tournament in which strategies for playing the iterated prisoner's dilemma game were pitted against each other until an overall winner emerged—the tit-for-tat strategy. In the 2008 tournament, 100 social learning strategies designed to cope with a changing environment competed against each other; the winning strategy involved sampling the behaviors of other players periodically, rather than exploring the environment alone.
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- Authors
- Rendell, L., Boyd, R., Cownden, D., Enquist, M., Eriksson, K., Feldman, M. W., Fogarty, L., Ghirlanda, S., Lillicrap, T., & Laland, K. N.
- Affiliations
- University of St Andrews (GB)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Queen's University (CA)
- Stockholm University (SE)
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rendell, L.
- Laland, K. N.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2010-04-09
- Volume
- 328
- Issue
- 5975
- Pages
- 208-213
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC2989663
- OpenAlex
- W2038900621
- Cited by
- 811
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 26 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 70 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 55 · 2020: 45 · 2019: 55 · 2018: 48 · 2017: 40 · 2016: 54 · 2015: 62 · 2014: 51 · 2013: 48 · 2012: 67
- FWCI
- 1771.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM028016)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- social learning, copying behavior, trial-and-error learning, information filtering, adaptive behavior, learning strategies, evolutionary game theory
- MeSH terms
- Cooperative Behavior, Cultural Evolution, Games, Experimental, Humans, Imitative Behavior, Learning, Problem Solving, Social Behavior, Software, Linear Models, Observation
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