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We then test this model — which predicts that teachers and learners use rational inference to update their beliefs about each other in response to observed communication from their partner — in two behavioral experiments. (3/4)
We extend Bayesian models of pedagogy to account for how teachers and learners interact to resolve uncertainty at two levels: (1) the learner’s uncertainty about the target concept; and (2) the teacher and learner’s higher-order uncertainty about *what the other knows*. (2/4)
More in the preprint! osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.io/ywbqu/ Feedback welcome!! :) (11/11)
Finally, people use the structure of the social relationship to adjust their emotional and moral evaluations of generous acts (although they do evaluate alternating actions better than repeating actions, across the board) (10/11)
So generous acts can potentially establish and communicate about relationships. In fact, we found that people do expect that communicating about a desired equal relationship is a primary motivation for alternating generosity (9/11)
We also found that people use generous acts to make analogous *inferences* about relationships. People expect that two people are in a hierarchical social relationship when actions repeat, and that they are in an equal relationship when actions alternate. (8/11)
2️⃣ It *is* governed by abstract rules about sequences of acts and how people think about these rules in relation to the social relationship. 3️⃣ But it is *also* tailored to specific cultural scripts people have, for specific types of scenarios. (7/11)