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...
Authors: | ; |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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
|
Online Access: |
Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |