Acquiring cultural knowledge through passive exposure.

• Main Author: Lee, Sau-Lai.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Research Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42764
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Past research has shown that people register frequency of occurrence of events automatically and they have very accurate knowledge about the relative social distribution of knowledge in their own community. For example, the percentage of Singaporean who would know who George Bush is or the percentag...