The human species is more reliant on cultural adaptation than any other species, but it is
unclear how observational learning can give rise to the faithful transmission of cultural …

A debate exists as to whether teaching is part of human nature and central to understanding
culture or whether it is a recent invention of Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic …

Humans often attempt to influence one another's behavior using rewards and punishments.
How does this work? Psychologists have often assumed that “evaluative feedback” …

Teaching has attracted growing research attention in studies of human and animal behavior
as a crucial behavior that coevolved with human cultural capacities. However, the synthesis …

Research on human infants and young children has provided evidence for five systems of
core knowledge: knowledge of objects and their motions; of agents and their goal-directed …

From early in childhood, humans exhibit sophisticated intuitions about how to share
knowledge efficiently in simple controlled studies. Yet, untrained adults often fail to teach …

This article introduces the concept of natural pedagogy (NP) as a tool for envisioning and
enacting second language learning and teaching. Currently popular in the social and …

One hundred and sixteen Korean 3-to 5-year-olds were individually taught animal names
through a game, either in a direct condition in which the instructional goal was stated or an …

Our human capacity to efficiently learn from other individuals is unparalleled in any
nonhuman species. Some scholars argue that our propensity to learn socially is supported …

Research shows that educators' perceptions of learning are limited due to a variety of factors
which include: a lack of neurobiological-and language acquisition-informed content and …