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The spontaneous emergence of conventions: An experimental study of cultural evolution
2015
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
How do shared conventions emerge in complex decentralized social systems? This question engages fields as diverse as linguistics, sociology and cognitive science. Previous empirical attempts to solve this puzzle all presuppose that formal or informal institutions, such as incentives for global agreement, coordinated leadership, or aggregated information about the population, are needed to facilitate a solution. Evolutionary theories of social conventions, by contrast, hypothesize that such
doi:10.1073/pnas.1418838112
pmid:25646462
pmcid:PMC4343158
fatcat:64spktiddnglzoqozyz2f25oum