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The Naive Utility Calculus as a unified, quantitative framework for action understanding

2019-12-18

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<p>The human ability to reason about the causes behind other people’ behavior is critical for navigating the social world. Recent empirical research with both children and adults suggests that this ability is structured around an assumption that other agents act to maximize some notion of subjective utility. In this paper, we present a formal theory of this Naïve Utility Calculus as a probabilistic generative mode...

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Literature Corpus work: 3cd40335-4c68-54bc-a187-de56be6cf59d
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/e8xsv

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