Science news articles about 'social learning'

  • Birds use social learning to enhance nest defense

    ... by observing the mobbing behaviour of other members of their species. This social learning was specific to cuckoos but not to harmless control ... genetic adaptations were to be expected, it was a surprise to the scientists that social learning provided another mechanism by which the warbler ...
  • Vocalizing Positive Emotions: Socially Learned Or Evolved?

    ... , both verbal and non-verbal, to communicate different emotions. But vocalizing some positive emotions may be a socially learned behavior, as opposed to a product of evolution ...
  • Social learning

    ... , suggest that students' online social networking directly influences social learning and can positively influence ... to be appropriately designed for different target populations. The breakthrough point may start from students' social learning ...
  • Schooling fish: Wild zebrafish assess risk through social learning

    ... . These results confirm the researchers´ hypothesis that zebrafish use social learning for assessing risk: they observe other individuals ... behaviour accordingly. The findings also indicate that zebrafish adapt their social-learning strategies to the costs of a perceived risk ...
  • When bears steal human food, mom's not to blame

    ... behavior with related lineage. The study indicates that bears may seek out human food as a function of social learning that may be independent of close relatives, or as a habit ...
  • Iowa State study finds mom's beliefs may impact their kids' alcohol use

    ... Processes," was recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a professional journal of the American Psychological ... -- self-verification theory, research on conformity and social learning theory as it pertains to modeling processes ...
  • Orangutan's spontaneous whistling opens new chapter in study of evolution of speech

    ... movements of humans, but Bonnie's whistling indicates that the learning capacities of orangutans and other great apes in the auditory ... from Bonnie. That compares with what scientists assume about social learning in wild orangutan populations. For example ...
  • Primate culture is just a stone's throw away from human evolution, study finds

    ... . Nahallage, and Jean-Baptiste Leca from the Primate Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan assessed social learning exhibited by these macaques during stone ...
  • Brain mechanisms of social conformity

    ... has been implicated in the anticipation and processing of rewards as well as social learning. The study authors found that a conflict with the group ... . "Our results also show that social conformity is based on mechanisms that comply with reinforcement learning and is reinforced by the neural ...
  • Child's play key to learning

    Childhood friendships are an important part of social learning and shouldn't be overlooked by parents, researchers have found.
  • Remembrance of things past influences how female field crickets select mates

    ... males for mating. The finding shows that social learning – the ability to learn information from other individuals of the same ... majority of studies of insect learning focus on foraging behavior, and in non-social insects – like ...
  • Remembrance Of Things Past Influences How Female Field Crickets Select Mates

    ... around them with other incoming signals when selecting attractive males for mating. The finding shows that social learning has profound impacts on insect behavior ...
  • Intervention reduces delinquent teenage pregancy rates

    ... at Oregon State University, and Leslie Leve and Patricia Chamberlain of the Eugene-based Oregon Social Learning Center, conducted the research, which will be published ...
  • High population density triggers cultural explosions

    ... learnt across generations can only be maintained when there is a critical level of interaction between people. Using computer simulations of social learning, they showed that high and low-skilled ...
  • Common fish species has 'human' ability to learn

    ... suggest these fish might have an unusually sophisticated social learning capability not yet found in other animals, called ... to people choosing the best technique through social learning and improving on it, resulting in cumulative culture ...

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