Publications
Publications
Whiten A, Caldwell CA & Mesoudi A (2016) Cultural diffusion in humans and other animals. Current Opinion in Psychology, 8, pp15-21.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.09.002
Caldwell CA (in press) Cultural evolution. In Miller HL (ed.), Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology. London: Sage.
Fishlock V, Caldwell CA & Lee PC (2015) Elephant resource-use traditions. Animal Cognition.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-015-0921-x
Little AC, Caldwell CA, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2015) Observer age and the social transmission of attractiveness in humans: Younger women are more influenced by the choices of popular others than older women. British Journal of Psychology, 106 (6), pp. 397–41.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12098
Caldwell CA (2015) Experimental studies of cumulative culture in modern humans: What are the requirements of the ratchet? In: Mesoudi A & Aoki K (eds.), Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Paleolithic. Tokyo: Springer, pp 145-154.
Caldwell CA & Eve RM (2014) Persistence of contrasting traditions in cultural evolution: Unpredictable payoffs generate slower rates of cultural change. PLoS ONE, 9 (6), e99708.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099708
Watson CFI, Buchanan-Smith HM & Caldwell CA (2014) Call playback artificially generates a temporary cultural style of high affiliation in marmosets. Animal Behaviour, 93, pp. 163-171.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.04.027
Matthews C, Roberts AG & Caldwell CA (2012) Opportunity to assimilate and pressure to discriminate can generate cultural divergence in the laboratory, Evolution and Human Behavior, 33 (6), pp. 759-770.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.06.004
Caldwell CA & Smith K (2012) Cultural evolution and perpetuation of arbitrary communicative conventions in experimental microsocieties, PLoS ONE, 7 (8), e43807.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043807
Caldwell CA, Schillinger K, Evans C & Hopper L (2012) End state copying by humans (Homo sapiens): Implications for a comparative perspective on cumulative culture, Journal of Comparative Psychology, 126 (2), pp. 161-169.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0026828
Little A, Caldwell CA, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2011) Effects of partner beauty on opposite-sex attractiveness judgments, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40 (6), pp. 1119-1127.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-011-9806-5
Little A, Jones BC, DeBruine LM & Caldwell CA (2011) Social learning and human mate preferences: a potential mechanism for generating and maintaining between-population diversity in attraction, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. B: Biological Sciences, 366 (1563), pp. 366-375.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0192
Caldwell CA & Millen A (2010) Human cumulative culture in the laboratory: Effects of (micro) population size, Learning and Behavior, 38 (3), pp. 310-318.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/LB.38.3.310
Watson CFI & Caldwell CA (2010) Neighbor effects in marmosets: Social contagion of agonism and affiliation in captive Callithrix jacchus, American Journal of Primatology, 72 (6), pp. 549-558.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajp.20805
Caldwell CA & Whiten A (2010) Social learning in monkeys and apes: cultural animals?. In: Campbell CJ, Fuentes A, MacKinnon KC, Bearder SK, Stumpf RM (Eds.). Primates in Perspective, 2nd ed, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press USA, pp. 652-662.
Caldwell CA & Millen A (2010) Conservatism in laboratory microsocieties: Unpredictable payoffs accentuate group-specific traditions, Evolution and Human Behavior, 31 (2), pp. 123-130.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.08.002
Price EE, Caldwell CA & Whiten A (2010) Comparative cultural cognition, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1 (1), pp. 23-31.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcs.14
Caldwell CA & Millen A (2009) Social learning mechanisms and cumulative cultural evolution: is imitation necessary?, Psychological Science, 20 (12), pp. 1478-1483.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02469.x
Watson CFI & Caldwell CA (2009) Understanding behavioral traditions in primates: Are current experimental approaches too focused on food?, International Journal of Primatology, 30 (1), pp. 143-167.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10764-009-9334-5
Caldwell CA, Watson CFI & Morris K (2009) Exploiting flavour preferences of common marmosets to increase palatability of a dry pellet diet, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 116 (41001), pp. 244-249.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2008.09.001
Caldwell CA (2008) Convergent cultural evolution may explain linguistic universals. [Commentary on: MH Christiansen and N Chater, 'Language as shaped by the brain', Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2008) 31, pp.489-509] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31 (5), pp. 515-516.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X08005050
Caldwell CA (2008) Experimental approaches to the study of culture in primates. In: Roska-Hardy Louise S, Neumann-Held Eva M (ed.). Learning from Animals?: Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness, Hove, East Sussex: Taylor & Francis (Psychology Press UK), pp. 173-187.
Caldwell CA & Millen A (2008) Studying cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Science, 363 (1509), pp. 3529-3539.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0133
Caldwell CA & Millen A (2008) Experimental models for testing hypotheses about cumulative cultural evolution, Evolution and Human Behavior, 29 (3), pp. 165-171.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.12.001
Little A, Burriss R, Jones BC, DeBruine LM & Caldwell CA (2008) Social influence in human face preference: men and women are influenced more for long-term than short-term attractiveness decisions, Evolution and Human Behavior, 29 (2), pp. 140-146.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.11.007
Price EE & Caldwell CA (2007) Artificially generated cultural variation between two groups of captive colobus monkeys, Colobus guereza kikuyuensis, Behavioural Processes, 74 (1), pp. 13-20.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2006.09.003
Leaver LA, Hopewell L, Caldwell CA & Mallarky L (2007) Audience effects on food caching in grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis): evidence for pilferage avoidance strategies, Animal Cognition, 10 (1), pp. 23-27.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-006-0026-7
Poyser F, Caldwell CA & Cobb M (2006) Dog paw preference shows lability and sex differences, Behavioural Processes, 73 (2), pp. 216-221.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2006.05.011
Caldwell CA & Whiten A (2006) Social learning in monkeys and apes: Cultural animals?. In: Campbell CJ, Fuentes A, MacKinnon KC, Panger M, Bearder SK (ed.). Primates in Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 652-662.
Horton KE & Caldwell CA (2006) Visual co-orientation and expectations about attentional orientation in pileated gibbons (Hylobates pileatus), Behavioural Processes, 72 (1), pp. 65-73.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2005.12.004
Caldwell CA & Whiten A (2004) Testing for social learning and imitation in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus, using an artificial fruit, Animal Cognition, 7 (2), pp. 77-85.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-003-0192-9
Caldwell CA & Whiten A (2003) Scrounging facilitates social learning in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus, Animal Behaviour, 65 (6), pp. 1085-1092.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2003.2145
Caldwell CA & Whiten A (2002) Evolutionary perspectives on imitation: is a comparative psychology of social learning possible?, Animal Cognition, 5 (4), pp. 193-208.