2022
Can digital media boost cumulative cultural evolution in the arts?
Cultural evolutionists indicate, with the term cumulative cultural evolution, the process by which cultural traits become more …
Digital age - the long view
In my talk, I will discuss how cultural evolution can provide a useful framework to understand how information is produced, …
Misinformation: the long view
In my talk, I will explore how cultural evolution can provide a convenient framework to understand how information is produced, …
Social influence and misinformation online
A current widespread narrative states that misinformation is abundant on social media, it has a relative advantage with respect to true …
2021
Digital age: the long view.
I have been invited at the 2021 meeting of the Cognition, Behavior & Evolution Network, where I will present some of my research on …
Why is misinformation on misinformation successful?
Despite widespread concerns, the supporting evidence of the abundance, effectiveness, and consequences of online misinformation is, at …
Attrattori culturali e disinformazione online
A talk (in Italian!) about my research on congitive and cultural attraction and online misinformaion.
Digital age: the long view.
In my talk, I will discuss how cultural evolution can provide a useful framework to understand how information is produced, …
From storytelling to Facebook. Content biases are stronger when retelling a story than when sharing it.
Objective: Cultural evolution researchers use transmission chain experiments to investigate which content is more likely to survive …
2020
Cultural evolution in the digital age
In my talk, I will discuss how cultural evolution can provide a useful framework to understand how information is produced, …
Cultural evolution in the digital age
In my talk, I will discuss how cultural evolution can provide a useful framework to understand how information is produced, …
Cultural evolution on the web
Cultural evolution - a byword for evolutionary and cognitive approaches to human culture - can provide a useful framework to understand …
Digital age: the long view
In my talk, I will discuss how cultural evolution-a byword for evolutionary and cognitive approaches to human culture-can provide a …
2019
The culture that wasn't?
In recent years, researchers from many disciplines have included the concept of culture among their explicatory tools. While this is a …
Cognitive attraction and online misinformation
The spread of online misinformation has gained mainstream attention in recent years and it is often touted as one of the biggest threat …
