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A joint future for cultural evolution and developmental psychology. Submitted
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2024 Cultural traits operating in senders and driving forces of cultural evolution. Proceedings Royal Society B
2023 Sequence representation as an early step in the evolution of language. PLOS Computational Biology
2023 A test of memory for stimulus sequences in great apes. PLOS ONE
2023 How associations become behavior. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
2023 The human evolutionary transition: From animal intelligence to culture. Princeton University Press
2023 Models of Conditioned Reinforcement and Abnormal Behaviour in Captive Animals. Behavioural Processes
2023 Cultural systems. Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution,
2022 Evolution of memory systems in animals. Chapter in Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms. Cambridge University Press
2021 Modelling cultural systems and selective filters. Philosophical Transactions B
2021 Learning Simulator: A simulation software for associative learning. JOSS: The Journal of Open Source Software
2021 Underappreciated features of cultural evolution Philosophical Transactions B
2020 A-learning: A new formulation of associative learning theory. Psychonomic Bullentin and Review
2019 On the role of responses in Pavlovian acquisition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
2019 A systems approach to cultural evolution. Palgrave Communications
2019 Social learning through associative processes: A computational theory. Royal Society Open Science
2017 Male height and marital status. Personality and Individual Differences
2017 Memory for stimulus sequences: a divide between humans and other animals? Royal Society Open Science
2017 Time does not help orangutans Pongo abelii sovle physical problems. Frontiers in Psychology
2016 The power of associative learning and the ontogeny of optimal behaviour. Royal Society Open Science
2015 Animal memory: A review of delayed matching-to-sample data. Behavioural Processes
2015 An empirical study of cultural evolution: The development of European cooking from medieval to modern times. Cliodynamics
2014 Regulatory trait: Cultural influences on cultural evolution. Evolution, complexity and artificial life
2014 Correlations in fertility across generations_can low fertility persist. Proceedings Royal Society B
2014 Coevolution of intelligence, behavioral repertoire, and lifespan. Theoretical Population Biology
2013 Dating human cultural capacity using phylogenetic principles. Scientific Reports
2012 The Logic of Fashion Cycles. PLOS ONE
2012 Regulatory Traits in Cultural Evolution. WIVACE
2012 Old and young individuals' role in cultural change. JASSS
2012 Insight learning and shaping.
2012 Det unikt mänskliga
2011 Parental influences on sexual preferences: The case of attraction to smoking. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology
2011 Modelling the evolution and diversity of cumulative culture. Philosophical Transactions B
2011 How copying affects the amount, evenness and persistence of cultural knowledge. Philosophical Transactions B
2011 Exposure to Mother’s Pregnancy and Lactation in Infancy. Journal of Sexual Medicine
2010 Why Copy Others Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament. Science
2010 Sustainability of culture-driven population dynamic. Theoretical Population Biology
2010 One cultural parent makes no culture. Animal Behaviour
2010 The Sometimes Evitable Route to Conservatism and Persuasiveness A Reply to Xue and Costopoulos
2009 Signalling. Book chapter in Evolutionary behavioral ecology (edited by Westneat & Fox.). Oxford University Press
2009 Repeated learning makes cultural evolution unique. PNAS
2009 More Synthetic Work Is Needed. Adaptive Behavior
2009 Insight learning or shaping. PNAS
2009 Cultural evolution and individual development of openness and conservatism. PNAS
2009 Accumulation of independent cultural traits. Theoretical Population Biology
2008 Why does human culture increase exponentially? Theoretical Population Biology
2007 Relative prevalence of different fetishes. International Journal of Impotence Research
2007 How training and testing histories affect generalization. Philosophical Transactions B
2007 Cumulative culture and explosive demographic transitions. Quality and Quantity
2007 Critical social learning a solution to Rogers's paradox of nonadaptive culture. American Anthropology
2007 Evolution of social learning does not explain the origin of human culture. Journal of theoretical biology
2007 Critical points in current theory of conformist social learning. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology
2006 Cultural evolution develops its own rules. Current Anthropology
2005 Testing the receiver bias hypothesis empirically. Animal Behaviour
2005 Neural Networks and Animals Behavior. Princeton University Press
2005 A strategic taxonomy of biological communication. Animal Behaviour
2004 Spots and stripes_the evolution of repetition in visual signal form. Journal of theoretical biology
2003 Receiver bias for colourful signals. Animal Behaviour
2003 A century of generalization. Animal Behaviour
2002 The evolution of signal form: effects of learned versus inherited recognition. Proceedings Royal Society B
2002 Spectacular phenomena and limits to rationality. Proceedings Royal Society B
2002 Experimental evidence of receiver bias for symmetry. Animal Behaviour
2002 Chickens prefer beautiful humans. Human Nature Ig Nobel prize
2001 Threat display in birds. Canadian Journal of Zoology
2001 The evolution of female sexuality. Animal Behaviour
2001 Role of begging and sibling competition in foraging strategies of nestlings. Animal Behaviour
2001 A method for simulating signal evolution using real animals. Ethology
2000 The evolution of courtship rituals in monogamous species. Behavioral Ecology
2000 Step–parents and infanticide. Proceedings Royal Society B
1999 The Geometry of Stimulus Control Animal Behaviour
1999 The evolution of female coyness - Trading time for information. Ethology
1999 Dynamics of mimicry evolution. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
1998 The secrets of faces Nature
1998 The Logic of Menage a Trois. Proceedings Royal Society B
1998 Instability of signaling resolution models of parent-offspring conflict. PNAS
1998 Discrete conventional signalling of a continuous variable. Animal Behaviour
1998 Conventional signalling in aggressive interactions_the importance of temporal structure
1998 Artificial neural networks as models of stimulus control
1997 Generalization and the evolution of symmetry preferences
1995 Darwin's principle of antithesis revisited
1995 Conflict, receiver bias and the evolution of signal form
1994 Symmetry, beauty and evolution
1993 The evolution of cooperation in mobile organisms
1993 Selection of exaggerated male traits by female aesthetic senses
1993 Hidden preferences and the evolution of signals
1991 Contest behaviour in Weidemeyer's admiral butterfly
1991 A test of the sequential assessment game Figthing in the bowl and doily spider
1990 The evolution of fatal fighting
1990 Is the behavioural effect of diazepam in rats unique to negative secondary stimuli
1990 Effects of dopamine D-1 and D-2 antagonists on decision making by rats
1987 Visual assessment of fighting ability in the cichlid fish
1987 Impairment of decision making in rats by diazepam
1987 Evolution of fighting behaviour_the effect of variation in resource value
1987 Disruptive effects of low doses of d-amphetamine on the ability of rats
1986 Evolutionary stability of aposematic coloration and prey unprofitability
1986 Decision making by rats in an unpredictable laborator
1986 Decision making and assessment in the fighting behaviour
1985 Communication during aggressive interactions with particular reference to variation
1985 Aggressive communication in fulmars
1984 Effects of asymmetries in owner-intruder conflicts
1983 1983 Evolution of fighting behaviour Decision rules and assement of relative strength
1981 Pair formation and reproductive output in domestic pigeons