Weak individual preferences stabilize culture
Feb 21, 2025
Positive sentiment and expertise predict the diffusion of archaeological content on social media
Jan 15, 2025
People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible
Feb 17, 2024
Machine Culture
Nov 21, 2023
Large language models show human-like content biases in transmission chain experiments
Oct 27, 2023
Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election
Sep 14, 2023
Self-Interest, prosociality, and the moral cognition of markets: A comparative analysis of the Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations
Apr 18, 2023
Sentiment analysis of the Twitter response to Netflix's Our Planet documentary
Apr 12, 2023
Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Feb 1, 2023
The method of exclusion (still) cannot identify specific mechanisms of cultural inheritance
Dec 15, 2022
The self-control vs. self-indulgence dilemma. A culturomic analysis of 20th century trends
Oct 12, 2022
From storytelling to Facebook. Content biases when retelling or sharing a story
May 2, 2022
Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information?
Jan 12, 2022
Culture without copying or selection
Nov 26, 2021
Social information use and social information waste
May 18, 2021
Modelling cultural systems and selective filters
May 18, 2021
Beyond social learning
May 18, 2021
The impact of the “World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates” list on scientific publications and media
Jan 17, 2020
Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics
Nov 7, 2019
Why people die in novels: Testing the ordeal simulation hypothesis
Jun 4, 2019
Cognitive attraction and online misinformation
Feb 12, 2019
Copy-the-majority of instances or individuals? Two approaches to the majority and their consequences for conformist decision-making
Jan 25, 2019
Did Einstein really say that? Testing content versus context in the cultural selection of quotations
Sep 19, 2018
Reply to ‘Sigmoidal Acquisition Curves are Good Indicators of Conformist Transmission’
Sep 18, 2018
Folk-economic beliefs as “evidential fiction”: Putting the economic public discourse back on track
Aug 30, 2018
Role of Neutral evolution in word turnover during centuries of English word popularity
Nov 2, 2017
Cultural complexity and demography: the case of folktales
Jul 1, 2017
Birth of the cool: a two-centuries decline in emotional expression in Anglophone fiction
Jun 4, 2017
A cultural evolution approach to digital media
Dec 15, 2016
A reappreciation of “conformity”
Dec 1, 2016
Conformity cannot be identified based on population-level signatures
Oct 31, 2016
Social learning solves the problem of narrow-peaked search landscapes: experimental evidence in humans
Sep 1, 2016
The role of redundant information in cultural transmission and cultural stabilization
Feb 1, 2016
Emergence of Leadership in a Group of Autonomous Robots
Sep 4, 2015
If we are all cultural Darwinians what’s the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution
Jun 3, 2015
Dog Movies Stars and Dog Breed Popularity: A Case Study in Media Influence on Choice
Sep 10, 2014
Biases in cultural transmission shape the turnover of popular traits
May 1, 2014
Books average previous decade of economic misery
Jan 8, 2014
Fashion vs. Function in Cultural Evolution: The Case of Dog Breed Popularity
Sep 11, 2013
The expression of emotions in 20th century books
Mar 20, 2013
Old and Young Individuals’ Role in Cultural Change
Oct 31, 2012
Behavioral constraints and the evolution of faithful social learning
Apr 1, 2012
The Logic of Fashion Cycles
Mar 7, 2012
Modeling imitation and emulation in constrained search spaces
Jun 1, 2011
Predation and the phasing of sleep: an evolutionary individual-based model
Apr 1, 2011
The Sometimes Evitable Route to Conservatism and Persuasiveness. A Reply to Xue and Costopoulos
Apr 1, 2010
Cultural evolution and individual development of openness and conservatism
Nov 10, 2009
Modelli evoluzionistici della cultura
Jan 1, 2009
Trasmissione sociale di comportamenti in una popolazione di robot autonomi
Aug 2, 2008
Social learning in embodied agents
I edited, together with Davide Marocco and Paul Vogt, a double special issue of the journal Connection Science on the topic “Social Learning in Embodied Agents”. This is our editorial.
Jun 20, 2008
To sleep or not to sleep: the ecology of sleep in artificial organisms
Jun 14, 2008
Cultural transmission between and within generations
Jan 31, 2006
Antropologia cognitiva: uno stato dell'arte
Dec 3, 2005
La mente nella cultura: cognizione ed analisi dei fatti culturali
Jan 1, 2005