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Inferential social learning: Cognitive foundations of human social learning and teaching

2021-03-05

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<p>Social learning is often portrayed as a passive process of copying and trusting others. This view, however, does not fully capture what makes human social learning so powerful: Social information is often “curated” by helpful teachers. Inferential social learning explains our abilities as learners and teachers as interpretation and generation of evidence in social contexts, characterizing both as probabilistic...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8n34t

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