Personality Predicts Innovation and Social Learning in Children: Implications for Cultural Evolution

Autor/inn/en	Rawlings, Bruce S.; Flynn, Emma G.; Kendal, Rachel L.
Titel	Personality Predicts Innovation and Social Learning in Children: Implications for Cultural Evolution
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 25 (2022) 1, (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Rawlings, Bruce S.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-7687
DOI	10.1111/desc.13153
Schlagwörter	Individual Differences; Personality Traits; Children; Preadolescents; Problem Solving; Observation; Demonstrations (Educational); Creativity; Cultural Influences; Innovation; Social Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individueller Unterschied; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Child; Kind; Kinder; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Problemlösen; Beobachtung; Demonstrationsexperiment; Demonstrationsmodell; Demonstrationsunterricht; Kreativität; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Soziale Entwicklung
Abstract	Innovation and social learning are the pillars of cultural evolution, allowing cultural behaviours to cumulatively advance over generations. Yet, little is known about individual differences in the use of social and asocial information. We examined whether personality influenced 7-11-year-old children's (N = 282) propensity to elect to observe others first or independently generate solutions to novel problems. Conscientiousness was associated with electing for no demonstrations, while agreeableness was associated with opting for demonstrations. For children receiving demonstrations, openness to experience consistently predicted deviation from observed methods. Children who opted for no demonstrations were also more likely than those opting for demonstrations to exhibit tool manufacture on an innovation challenge and displayed higher creativity, as measured by an alternate uses task. These results highlight how new cultural traditions emerge, establish and advance by identifying which individuals generate new cultural variants in populations and which are influential in the diffusion of these variants, and help reduce the apparent tension within the 'ratchet' of cumulative culture. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01