Journal article
Constructing Culture in Cowbirds (Molothrus ater)
Journal of comparative psychology (1983), Vol.121(2), pp.113-122
05/2007
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.121.2.113
PMID: 17516790
Abstract
In past work, the authors produced divergent patterns of courtship and
communication in juvenile male cowbirds (
Molothrus ater
)
by providing them with different social experiences during their 1st year.
Here the authors determined whether these different social patterns could
be transmitted to new generations of juvenile males. In Experiment 1, the
authors exposed groups of juveniles to adult males who differed in the
amount of male-male competition they produced. In Experiment 2,
they gave groups of juveniles either social access to adult males or only
visual and acoustic access to those males. In both experiments, juvenile
males developed patterns of courtship and competition similar to those
expressed by the adult males with whom they had social contact. The
juveniles never had the opportunity to observe some of the adults'
behaviors that they came to replicate. This suggests that the role of the
adults was to establish the social structure in the groups, modifying
juveniles' early social interactions. Juveniles were then
"cultured" within these different learning
environments, constructing social behavior similar to the adult males'
behavior in their 1st year.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Constructing Culture in Cowbirds (Molothrus ater)
- Creators
- David J White - Department of Psychology, University of PennsylvaniaJulie Gros-Louis - Department of Psychology, Indiana University BloomingtonAndrew P King - Department of Psychology, Indiana University BloomingtonMaral A Papakhian - Department of Psychology, Indiana University BloomingtonMeredith J West - Department of Psychology, Indiana University Bloomington
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of comparative psychology (1983), Vol.121(2), pp.113-122
- DOI
- 10.1037/0735-7036.121.2.113
- PMID
- 17516790
- NLM abbreviation
- J Comp Psychol
- ISSN
- 0735-7036
- eISSN
- 1939-2087
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Grant note
- name: National Science Foundation; DOI: 10.13039/100006733, name: Indiana University; name: National Sciences and Engineering Research Council
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2007
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984002480402771
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