Dr. Waring gave an invited lecture at the Contagion on Complex Social Systems workshop at University of Vermont. The lecture “How Social Learning and Cultural Evolution can add to the study of Social Contagion,” reviewed classic models of cultural transmission, and current research in social learning in humans and other animals to provide a buffet of ways in which researchers can incorporate more naturalistic mechanisms of social transmission in models and research. This mechanisms can be useful for complex systems and social epidemiology, sociology and other social sciences.

Classic models in cultural evolution