Understanding Theory of Mind should begin with an analysis of the problems it solves. The
traditional answer is that Theory of Mind is used for predicting others' thoughts and actions …

Social learning is often portrayed as a passive process of copying and trusting others. This
view, however, does not fully capture what makes human social learning so powerful: social …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

The complex reward structure of the social world and the uncertainty endemic to social
contexts poses a challenge for modeling. For example, during social interactions, the actions …

Highlights•RL models have been applied to study the neural underpinnings of social
learning.•Past work has largely found neural correlates of observable, reward-predictive …

Are young children just random explorers who learn serendipitously? Or are even young
children guided by uncertainty‐directed sampling, seeking to explore in a systematic …

Those designing autonomous systems that interact with humans will invariably face
questions about how humans think and make decisions. Fortunately, computational …

Judgments surrounding resource acquisition and valuation are ubiquitous in daily life. How
do humans decide what something is worth to themselves or someone else? One important …

People use language to influence others' beliefs and actions. Yet models of communication
have diverged along these lines, formalizing the speaker's objective in terms of either the …

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to understand and influence other minds.
Humans engage in inferential social learning (ISL) by using commonsense psychology to …