The Naïve Utility Calculus: Computational Principles Underlying Commonsense Psychology

We propose that human social cognition is structured around a basic understanding of ourselves and others as intuitive utility maximizers: from a young age, humans implicitly assume that agents choose goals and actions to maximize the rewards they expect to obtain relative to the costs they expect t...

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Main Authors: Gweon, Hyowon, Jara-Ettinger, Julian, Schulz, Laura E, Tenenbaum, Joshua B
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113204
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6167-1647
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1925-2035