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Payoff Bias

Payoff Bias is a social learning strategy in which individuals preferentially adopt behavioral variants that are associated with higher perceived rewards or fitness outcomes, distinguishing it from other social learning biases by its reliance on the subjective or observed payoff differential between alternative behaviors.

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2017–2026

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The overconfidence effect in social prediction.

David Dunning, Dale W. Griffin, James D. Milojkovic et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1990 · 330 citations

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The overconfidence effect in social prediction.

David Dunning, Dale Griffin, James D. Milojkovic et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1990 · 272 citations

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I Lie? We Lie! Why? Experimental Evidence on a Dishonesty Shift in Groups

Martin G. Kocher, Simeon Schudy, Lisa Spantig · Management Science · 2017 · 200 citations

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The evolution of social learning rules: Payoff-biased and frequency-dependent biased transmission

Jeremy Kendal, Luc‐Alain Giraldeau, Kevin N. Laland · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 2009 · 184 citations · Full text

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An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused

Alex Mesoudi · Evolution and Human Behavior · 2011 · 171 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JC
    James C. Cox

    Georgia State University, United States

    2 publications · 156 citations

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  2. LR
    Lee Ross

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 602 citations

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  3. US
    Ulrich Schmidt

    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

    2 publications · 156 citations

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  4. JK
    Jeremy Kendal

    Durham University, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 195 citations

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  5. DD
    David Dunning

    Cornell University, United States

    2 publications · 602 citations

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Institutions

49

  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    655 citations

  2. Georgia State University

    Atlanta, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    312 citations

  3. Durham University

    Durham, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    228 citations

  4. University of St Andrews

    St Andrews, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    248 citations

  5. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    104 citations

  6. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

    Kiel, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    156 citations

  7. Urbana University

    Urbana, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    45 citations

  8. China Medical University

    Taichung, Taiwan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    29 citations

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  1. Journal of Experimental Psychology General

    2 publications · 73 citations

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  2. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    2 publications · 602 citations

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  4. Psychological Science

    1 publications · 23 citations

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  5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

    1 publications · 30 citations

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