Did Einstein Really Say that? Testing Content Versus Context in the Cultural Selection of Quotations

We experimentally investigated the influence of context-based biases, such as prestige and popularity, on the preferences for quotations. Participants were presented with random quotes associated to famous or unknown authors (experiment one), or with random quotes presented as popular, i.e. chosen b...

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Authors: Acerbi, Alberto (Author) ; Tehrani, Jamshid J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 18, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 293-311
Further subjects:B Cultural Evolution cultural transmission context-based biases content-based biases quotations
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