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Sameness Entices, but Novelty Enchants in Fanfiction Online
Cultural evolution is driven by how we choose what to consume and share with others.
Epistemic Phase Transitions in Mathematical Proofs
Mathematical proofs are both paradigms of certainty and some of the most explicitly-justified arguments that we have in the cultural record.
The Development of Darwin's Origin of Species
From 1837, when he returned to England aboard the $\textit{HMS Beagle}$, to 1860, just after publication of $\textit{The Origin of Species}$, Charles Darwin kept detailed notes of each book he read or wanted to read.
Exploration and Exploitation of Victorian Science in Darwin's Reading Notebooks
Our quantitative methods advance the study of cognitive search through a framework for testing interactions between individual and collective behavior and between short- and long-term consumption choices.
Optimal high-level descriptions of dynamical systems
These include SSC as a measure of the complexity of a dynamical system, and as a way to quantify information flow between the scales of a system.
Demystifying Information-Theoretic Clustering
We propose a novel method for clustering data which is grounded in information-theoretic principles and requires no parametric assumptions.
Robust Compressed Sensing and Sparse Coding with the Difference Map
In compressed sensing, we wish to reconstruct a sparse signal $x$ from observed data $y$.
Opacity, Obscurity, and the Geometry of Question-Asking
Asking questions is a pervasive human activity, but little is understood about what makes them difficult to answer.
Lévy Flights of the Collective Imagination
We present a structured random-walk model that captures key aspects of how people communicate in groups.
How we do things with words: Analyzing text as social and cultural data
Second, we hope to provide a set of best practices for working with thick social and cultural concepts.
From Probability to Consilience: How Explanatory Values Implement Bayesian Reasoning
Recent work in cognitive science has uncovered a diversity of explanatory values, or dimensions along which we judge explanations as better or worse.
When Science is a Game
What happens when scientists are, at certain points in a field's development, playing a game?
History and Philosophy of Physics Physics and Society
Aggression heuristics underlie animal dominance hierarchies and provide evidence of group-level social information
Members of a social species need to make appropriate decisions about who, how, and when to interact with others in their group.
The Diversity of Argument-Making in the Wild: from Assumptions and Definitions to Causation and Anecdote in Reddit's "Change My View"
Data from r/CMV also reveal differences in efficacy: personal experience and, to a lesser extent, arguments about causation and examples, are most likely to shift a person's view, while arguments about relevance are the least.
From "um" to "yeah": Producing, predicting, and regulating information flow in human conversation
Conversation demands attention.
