The rise of social media has profoundly altered the social world–introducing new behaviours
which can satisfy our social needs. However, it is yet unknown whether human social
strategies, which are well-adapted to the offline world we developed in, operate as
effectively within this new social environment. Here, we describe how the computational
framework of Reinforcement Learning can help us to precisely frame this problem and
diagnose where behaviour-environment mismatches emerge. The Reinforcement Learning …