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July 30, 2026Topics in Cognitive ScienceOpen Access

The Cultural Evolution of Human Goals

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JPJérémy PerezCCCédric ColasGMGaia Molinaro

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Overview

Exploring cultural influences on goal pursuit dynamics, emphasizing intrinsic motivation's role in evolution.

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore how cultural factors influence the goals individuals pursue and how those goals, in turn, shape cultural dynamics.
  • Introduced the framework of cultural autotelic agents to understand goal dynamics.
  • Analyzed the interplay between cultural environments and individual goal-directed behaviors.
  • Examined intrinsic motivation's role in promoting complex and diverse goals.
  • Established that intrinsic motivation significantly drives non-instrumental pursuits in cultural settings.
  • Demonstrated that motivated agents bias exploration towards increasingly complex goals.
  • Highlighted that cultural environments evolve alongside the goals individuals pursue.

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Perez et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6af56260e2b924d3ea18d8https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.70078
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