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  1. The Cultural Ecology of Social Media

    Article • December 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  2. Digital Media

    Article • October 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  3. Weapon and Poison: Framing Disinformation in European Commission Speeches, 2016–2024

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  4. Weak individual preferences stabilize culture

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  5. Digital Media

    Article • January 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  6. Large language models show human-like content biases in transmission chain experiments

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  7. Large language models show human-like content biases in transmission chain experiments

    Article • July 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  8. Weak content preferences stabilise culture

    Article • March 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  9. Sentiment analysis of the Twitter response to Netflix's Our Planet documentary

    Article • Conservation Biology, January 2023, Wiley

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  10. Negative sentiment on Twitter in response to Netflix's Our Planet documentary

    Article • September 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  11. Misinformation Is a Threat Because (Other) People are Gullible

    Article • May 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  12. From Storytelling to Facebook

    Article • Human Nature, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  13. Perché si muore nei romanzi: l’ipotesi della simulazione dell’ordalia

    Article • January 2022, Firenze University Press

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  14. Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

    Article • November 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  15. Culture without copying or selection

    Article • Evolutionary Human Sciences, November 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  16. Cultural transmission bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theories on Twitter during the 2020 US election

    Article • October 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  17. Digital culture

    Article • August 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  18. The self-control vs. self-indulgence dilemma: A culturomic analysis of 20th century trends

    Article • June 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  19. From storytelling to Facebook. Content biases when retelling or sharing a story

    Article • June 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  20. Beyond social learning

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  21. Modelling cultural systems and selective filters

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  22. Social information use and social information waste

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  23. Review of "The Weirdest People in the World"

    Article • March 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  24. Social information use and social information waste

    Article • December 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  25. Individual-based models of cultural evolution. A step-by-step guide using R.

    Article • December 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi, Mr Marco Smolla

  26. Modelling cultural systems and selective filters

    Article • November 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  27. Cultural accumulation and improvement in online fan fiction

    Article • September 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  28. Ape cultures do not require behavior copying

    Article • March 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  29. Why people die in novels: testing the ordeal simulation hypothesis

    Article • Palgrave Communications, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  30. Culture without copying or selection

    Article • March 2019, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  31. Cognitive attraction and online misinformation

    Article • Palgrave Communications, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  32. Copy-the-majority of instances or individuals? Two approaches to the majority and their consequences for conformist decision-making

    Article • PLOS One, January 2019, PLOS

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  33. Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics

    Article • January 2019, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  34. Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics

    Article • Evolutionary Human Sciences, January 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  35. Cognitive attraction and online misinformation

    Article • November 2018, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  36. Reply to ‘Sigmoidal Acquisition Curves are Good Indicators of Conformist Transmission’

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  37. Did Einstein Really Say that? Testing Content Versus Context in the Cultural Selection of Quotations

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, August 2018, Brill

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  38. ROLE OF NEUTRAL EVOLUTION IN WORD TURNOVER DURING CENTURIES OF ENGLISH WORD POPULARITY

    Article • Advances in Complex Systems, September 2017, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  39. Cultural complexity and demography: The case of folktales

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  40. Did Einstein really say that? Testing content versus context in the cultural selection of quotations

    Article • April 2017, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  41. A Cultural Evolution Approach to Digital Media

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, December 2016, Frontiers

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  42. Birth of the cool: a two-centuries decline in emotional expression in Anglophone fiction

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, December 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  43. A reappreciation of ‘conformity’

    Article • Animal Behaviour, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  44. Conformity cannot be identified based on population-level signatures

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2016, Nature

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  45. Cultural complexity and demography: the case of folktales

    Article • October 2016, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  46. A cultural evolution approach to digital media

    Article • September 2016, Center for Open Science

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  47. Social learning solves the problem of narrow-peaked search landscapes: experimental evidence in humans

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, September 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  48. The role of redundant information in cultural transmission and cultural stabilization.

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  49. Emergence of Leadership in a Group of Autonomous Robots

    Article • PLOS One, September 2015, PLOS

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  50. If we are all cultural Darwinians what’s the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution

    Article • Biology & Philosophy, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  51. Dog Movie Stars and Dog Breed Popularity: A Case Study in Media Influence on Choice

    Article • PLOS One, September 2014, PLOS

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  52. Biases in cultural transmission shape the turnover of popular traits

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, May 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  53. Correction: Books Average Previous Decade of Economic Misery

    Article • PLOS One, January 2014, PLOS

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  54. Books Average Previous Decade of Economic Misery

    Article • PLOS One, January 2014, PLOS

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  55. Regulatory Traits: Cultural Influences on Cultural Evolution

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  56. Robustness of emotion extraction from 20th century English books

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  57. The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books

    Article • PLOS One, March 2013, PLOS

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  58. The Logic of Fashion Cycles

    Article • PLOS One, March 2012, PLOS

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  59. Predation and the phasing of sleep: an evolutionary individual-based model

    Article • Animal Behaviour, April 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  60. Modeling imitation and emulation in constrained search spaces

    Article • Learning & Behavior, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  61. The Sometimes Evitable Route to Conservatism and Persuasiveness

    Article • Current Anthropology, April 2010, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  62. Cultural evolution and individual development of openness and conservatism

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  63. Orienting learning by exploiting sociality: An evolutionary robotics simulation

    Article • June 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  64. Social learning in embodied agents

    Article • Connection Science, September 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  65. To sleep or not to sleep: the ecology of sleep in artificial organisms

    Article • BMC Ecology, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alberto Acerbi

  66. Social learning and cultural evolution in embodied and situated agents

    Article • April 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Alberto Acerbi