title: What makes a meme successful? Selection criteria for cultural evolution creator: Heylighen, Francis subject: Evolutionary Psychology subject: Epistemology subject: Social Psychology description: Meme replication is described as a 4-stage process, consisting of assimilation, retention, expression and transmission. The effect of different objective, subjective, intersubjective and meme-centered selection criteria on these different stages is discussed. publisher: Association Internationale de Cybernetique contributor: Ramaekers, Jean date: 1998 type: Conference Paper type: NonPeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/1132/1/MemeticsNamur.html identifier: Heylighen, Francis (1998) What makes a meme successful? Selection criteria for cultural evolution. [Conference Paper] relation: http://cogprints.org/1132/