Nicola Mcguigan

Nicola Mcguigan

University of the West of Scotland

H-index: 22

Europe-United Kingdom

About Nicola Mcguigan

Nicola Mcguigan, With an exceptional h-index of 22 and a recent h-index of 18 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of the West of Scotland, specializes in the field of social learning, prosocial behavior, cumulative culture, over-imitation.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

The benefits and risks of child-dog attachment and child-dog behaviours for child psychological well-being

Context congruence: How associative learning modulates cultural evolution

A new modulator of cultural transmission: congruence between learning and onward transmission contexts

The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority-or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty

Collective knowledge and the dynamics of culture in chimpanzees

Understanding Cultural Information Flow: A Qualitative study of a small social group

Young children selectively adopt sharing norms according to norm content and donor age

Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task

Nicola Mcguigan Information

University

Position

Associate Professor

Citations(all)

3255

Citations(since 2020)

1674

Cited By

2442

hIndex(all)

22

hIndex(since 2020)

18

i10Index(all)

29

i10Index(since 2020)

28

Email

University Profile Page

University of the West of Scotland

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Nicola Mcguigan Skills & Research Interests

social learning

prosocial behavior

cumulative culture

over-imitation

Top articles of Nicola Mcguigan

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

The benefits and risks of child-dog attachment and child-dog behaviours for child psychological well-being

Human-Animal Interactions

Roxanne D Hawkins

Charlotte Robinson

Nicola McGuigan

2023/9/13

Context congruence: How associative learning modulates cultural evolution

Plos one

Monica Tamariz

Aliki Papa

Mioara Cristea

Nicola McGuigan

2023/4/4

A new modulator of cultural transmission: congruence between learning and onward transmission contexts

Aliki Papa

Mioara Cristea

Nicola McGuigan

Monica Tamariz

2022/4/17

The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority-or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Emily RR Burdett

Andrew Whiten

Nicola McGuigan

2022/2/1

Collective knowledge and the dynamics of culture in chimpanzees

Andrew Whiten

Rachel A Harrison

Nicola McGuigan

Gillian L Vale

Stuart K Watson

2022/1/31

Understanding Cultural Information Flow: A Qualitative study of a small social group

Aliki Papa

Mioara Cristea

Nicola McGuigan

Monica Tamariz

2022/5/30

Young children selectively adopt sharing norms according to norm content and donor age

Cognitive Development

Emily JE Messer

Amy Lumsden

Vanessa Burgess

Nicola McGuigan

2021/7/1

Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task

Evolution and Human Behavior

Gillian L Vale

Nicola McGuigan

Emily Burdett

Susan P Lambeth

Amanda Lucas

...

2021/5/1

Effects of verbal instruction vs. modelling on imitation and overimitation

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Aliki Papa

Mioara Cristea

Nicola McGuigan

Monica Tamariz

2021/10/19

The emotional and behavioural basis of child-dog attachment and associations with psychological wellbeing

Roxanne Hawkins

Charlotte Robinson

Nicola McGuigan

2021/9/15

Effects of verbal instruction vs modelling on (over) imitation and cumulative culture

Aliki Papa

Mioara Cristea

Nicola McGuigan

Monica Tamariz

2020/10/12

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