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Cognitive science. 2021 Sep;45(9):e13033. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13033 Q22.32024

Socially Situated Transmission: The Bias to Transmit Negative Information is Moderated by the Social Context

社会背景下的传播:传递负面信息的倾向由其社会情境所调节 翻译改进

Nicolas Fay  1, Bradley Walker  1, Yoshihisa Kashima  2, Andrew Perfors  2

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  • 1 School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia.
  • 2 School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne.
  • DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13033 PMID: 34490917

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    Cultural evolutionary theory has identified a range of cognitive biases that guide human social learning. Naturalistic and experimental studies indicate transmission biases favoring negative and positive information. To address these conflicting findings, the present study takes a socially situated view of information transmission, which predicts that bias expression will depend on the social context. We report a large-scale experiment (N = 425) that manipulated the social context and examined its effect on the transmission of the positive and negative information contained in a narrative text. In each social context, information was progressively lost as it was transmitted from person to person, but negative information survived better than positive information, supporting a negative transmission bias. Importantly, the negative transmission bias was moderated by the social context: Higher social connectivity weakened the bias to transmit negative information, supporting a socially situated account of information transmission. Our findings indicate that our evolved cognitive preferences can be moderated by our social goals.

    Keywords: Cognitive bias; Cultural evolution; Negativity bias; Positivity bias; Situated cognition; Social transmission; Socially situated cognition; Transmission fidelity.

    Keywords:social context

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    ISSN:0364-0213

    e-ISSN:1551-6709

    IF/分区:2.3/Q2

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