Cultural evolution of group identity
In this project we investigated cultural evolution of group identity. We assigned partivipants to minimal groups by telling them that they belong to a "Green" or "Blue" village. Then we showed them how often certain positive, neutral and negative traits occurr in each group. For example, we could tell them that: "40% of people in your village are friendly and 55% in the other village are friendly". Then they had to send this information to another person by indicating each number on a line from 0 to 100%.
You can learn more about this project by looking at the interactive dashboard showing our results. It also allows you to explore them by yourself.
Read a more detailed report from this study in our preprint: Woźniak, M., Charbonneau, M., Knoblich, G. "Biases in cultural transmission of information about a minimal ingroup"
The project was run in collaboration with Mathieu Charbonneau and Guenther Knoblich
