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...
Main Authors: | Gweon, Hyowon, Jara-Ettinger, Julian, Schulz, Laura E, Tenenbaum, Joshua B |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Elsevier
2018
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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 |
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