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  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Social Psychology

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  • Bayesian models effectively explain social cognition, including inferring others' goals and intentions from behavior.
  • Ambiguity resolution in communication is a key aspect of social cognition that requires inferring mental states.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To extend Bayesian accounts of social cognition to analyze ambiguity resolution in brief communicative exchanges.
  • To investigate how individuals infer listeners' preferences and make utterance choices in a reference game.
  • To model these processes using a modified Rational Speech Act (RSA) model.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a reference game experimental setup to observe participants' behavior.
  • Applied Bayesian inference to model preference inference based on observed behavior.
  • Formalized social information gain as expected knowledge change to model utterance choice.
  • Employed a modified Rational Speech Act model to approximate experimental data.

Main Results:

  • Participants successfully inferred listeners' preferences when presented with referential ambiguity.
  • A subset of speakers strategically used ambiguous utterances, while others preferred unambiguous ones.
  • The modified RSA model accurately approximated both preference inference and utterance choice data.
  • Bayesian inference was shown to compute posteriors over conversational partners' inner states.

Conclusions:

  • Social conversations facilitate learning about others' mental states through the interpretation of ambiguous utterances.
  • Observing interpretations of ambiguous utterances allows for strategic learning about conversational partners.
  • The study demonstrates the utility of Bayesian cognitive models in understanding complex social interactions and communication.