Understanding the multiple factors governing social learning and the diffusion of innovations
Summary. This paper examines how animals learn from social interactions and how innovations spread through populations via social learning. The author reviews evidence from wild animals and identifies key conditions enabling social learning: sensitive developmental periods, difficulty obtaining personal information, and situations where social information outperforms individual learning. The research demonstrates that social learning mechanisms allow animal populations to adapt behaviorally to environmental changes through innovation diffusion.
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Aplin, L. M.. (2016). Understanding the multiple factors governing social learning and the diffusion of innovations. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.09.003
Aplin, Lucy M.. “Understanding the multiple factors governing social learning and the diffusion of innovations.” Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.09.003.
Aplin, Lucy M.. 2016. “Understanding the multiple factors governing social learning and the diffusion of innovations.” Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.09.003.
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title = {Understanding the multiple factors governing social learning and the diffusion of innovations},
author = {Lucy M. Aplin},
journal = {Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences},
year = {2016},
doi = {10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.09.003},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.09.003}
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- 10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.09.003
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- innovation-theory, general-innovation
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- 2026-04-28