{"pk":29499,"title":"How much to copy from others?The role of partial copying in social learning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"One of the major ways that people engage in adaptive problemsolving is by copying the solutions of others. Most of the workon this field has focused on three questions: when to copy, whoto copy from, and what to copy. However, how much to copyhas been relatively less explored. In the current research, weare interested in the consequences for a group when its mem-bers engage in social learning strategies with different tenden-cies to copy entire or partial solutions and different complex-ities of search problems. We also consider different networktopologies that affect the solutions visible to each member.Using a computational model of collective problem solving,we demonstrate that strategies where social learning involvespartial copying outperform strategies where individuals copyentire solutions. We analyze the exploration/exploitation dy-namics of these social learning strategies under the differentconditions.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"social learning; individual learning; copying; ex-plore/exploit; imitation; network topology"}],"section":"Social Learning","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jd2q51b","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Chelsea","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Campbell","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""},{"first_name":"Eduardo","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Izquierdo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Goldstone","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T21:00:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29499/galley/19359/download/"}]}