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The Collective Trust Game: An Online Group Adaptation of the Trust Game Based on the HoneyComb Paradigm

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Learning to trust and trusting to learn: a theoretical framework.

Asheley R Landrum¹, Baxter S Eaves¹, Patrick Shafto¹

¹Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

|January 8, 2015

Summary

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Learning involves understanding people

Keywords:

cognitive development epistemic trust social learning

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The Collective Trust Game: An Online Group Adaptation of the Trust Game Based on the HoneyComb Paradigm

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Published on: October 20, 2022

Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Developmental Psychology
Social Learning Theory

Background:

Acquiring knowledge from others necessitates evaluating informant's psychological states (knowledge, intent) and presented data.
Existing models often treat these as separate processes, potentially limiting understanding of social learning.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose an integrated framework for understanding social learning.
To highlight the reciprocal and developmental nature of reasoning about informants and their information.

Main Methods:

Theoretical analysis integrating cognitive and social reasoning.
Conceptual framework development based on existing empirical evidence.

Main Results:

Reasoning about psychological properties and data implications are interconnected, not independent.
These integrated reasoning processes develop with experience.

Conclusions:

An integrated approach offers a more comprehensive model of social learning.
Understanding the interplay between informant assessment and data interpretation is key to knowledge acquisition.