Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
My research uses both cultural evolution and sociolinguistic theory and methods to investigate human cultural transmission. My PhD research uses mixed methods to investigate the effects of differential accent prestige on the retention of cultural information and the use of storytelling to signal importance and scaffold the retention of biased information. My research has been designed to be replicated cross-culturally.
I am broadly interested in:
- Social transmission biases
- Accent and prestige
- Storytelling and narrative
- Fairy tales, folklore and creation stories
- Cross-culturally relevant experiments
- Cultural transmission and evolution
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Research output
- 2 Article (Academic Journal)
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Prestige and content biases together shape the cultural transmission of narratives.
Berl, R., Samarasinghe, A. N., Roberts, S. G., Jordan, F. M. & Gavin, M. C., 8 Aug 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: SocArXiv.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Evaluations of accents can be used as a measure of prestige
Samarasinghe, A. N., Berl, R., Gavin, M. C. & Jordan, F. M., 15 Nov 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: PLOS ONE.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Transmission: The effects of social transmission biases on human cultural evolution
Samarasinghe, A. N. (Researcher) & Jordan, F. M. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/15 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
Thesis
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Darwinian Sociolinguistics: Narratives as tools for investigating cultural transmission biases
Samarasinghe, A. N. (Author), Jordan, F. M. (Supervisor) & Gibson, M. A. (Supervisor), 23 Jun 2020Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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