Aggressive Mimicry in 147 Cultures

Text-scraped data from 366 anthropological cultures in the Human Relations Area Files.The six terms Deceiv*, Deception, Decoy*, Imitat*, Lure*/Luring, and Mimic* yielded 324, 111, 327, 1365, 603, and 131 paragraphs, respectively. Of these Deceive* yielded 18 results of aggressive mimicry, Deception yielded 5, Decoy* yielded 109, Imitat* yielded 80, Lure*/Luring yielded 146, and Mimic* yielded 8 for a total of 366 examples. From the total 366 ethnographic examples, 147 cultures from 34 regions in all 7 continent groups had some form of aggressive mimicry. This represented roughly 46% of eHRAF’s cultural dataset at the time of data collection (November, 2019).