Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "Straffon, Larissa Mendoza"
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The Peacock Fallacy: Art as a Veblenian Signal
Straffon, Larissa Mendoza (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The fact that world-over people seem inexplicably motivated to allocate time and effort to apparently useless cultural practices, like the arts, has led several evolutionary scholars to suggest that these might be costly ...