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Flexibly biased learning rates in social learning

2025-05-22

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<p>Research on individual decision-making often finds a positivity bias, where people weight positive outcomes more strongly than negative ones during learning. This can be beneficial when rewards are rare, by amplifying relative value differences. Yet, we know very little about learning rate biases in social settings, where a key advantage is being able to vicariously learn from the negative experiences of others...

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Literature Corpus work: 61ca16c7-5c3d-5bf8-bf06-35f82fb67003
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/bcrw9_v2

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