PART I * SOCIAL LEARNING: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 1 * IMITATION IN ANIMALS: HISTORY, DEFINITION, AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA FROM THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY 2 * AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL OF SOCIAL LEARNING: THE EFFECTS OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATON PART II * SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON AVOIDANCE LEARNING 3 * SOCIAL LEARNING AND THE ACQUISITION OF SNAKE FEAR IN MONKEYS 4 * CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF ENEMY RECOGNITION BY BIRDS 5 * DIRECT AND OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING BY RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS (AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS): THE IMPORTANCE OF COMPLEX VISUAL STIMULI PART III * SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON FORAGING AND FEEDING 6 * COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION CONCERNING DISTANT DIETS IN A SOCIAL, CENTRAL-PLACE FORAGING SPECIES: RATTUS NORVEGICUS 7 * MECHANISMS, ECOLOGY, AND POPULATION DIFFUSION OF SOCIALLY-LEARNED, FOOD-FINDING BEHAVIOR IN FERAL PIGEONS 8 * SOCIAL LEARNING ABOUT FOOD BY HUMANS PART IV * SOCIAL LEARNING OF ARBITRARY RESPONSES 9 * EXPERIMENTALLY MANIPULATED IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR IN RATS AND PIGEONS 10 * LEARNING IN THE RAT OF A CHOICE RESPONSE BY OBSERVATION OF S-S CONTINGENCIES 11 * LEARNED IMITATION BY PIGEONS 12 * CULTURE AND GENETICS IN THE HOUSE MOUSE PART V * SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON COMMUNICATION 13 * THE ROLE OF SOCIAL FACTORS IN WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW SONG DEVELOPMENT 14 * THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL INTERACTION AND OBSERVATION IN THE ACQUISITION OF COMMUNICATVE COMPETENCE: POSSIBLE PARALLELS BETWEEN AVIAN AND HUMAN LEARNING 15 * INFANTS IMITATION OF NOVEL AND FAMILIAR BEHAVIORS 16 * THE HUMAN INFANT AS “HOMO IMITANS”.