Why do we imitate nonsense? The underlying motivations of overimitation

Over evolutionary time, humans have come to populate the most varied environments on planet earth and somehow managed to survive. The key to this extraordinary adaptability seems to rest not exclusively in biological adaptions, but also in cultural adaptations; it is thanks to the skills and informa...

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1. Verfasser: Schleihauf, Hanna (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Buch/Monographie Hochschulschrift
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Heidelberg 2018
DOI:10.11588/heidok.00025480
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Verfasserangaben:presented by Hanna Schleihauf ; advisor: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Höhl

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