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Learning how to behave: Uri Hertz (Talk at Center for Conflict and Cooperation)

Dr. Uri Hertz visited NYU's Center for Conflict and Cooperation to give a talk on his recent research regarding the cognitive processes underlying learning social norms and biases. The abstract for his talk "Learning how to behave: cognitive learning processes underlying adaptation to social norms and intergroup bias" is as follows: Social norms provide groups of individuals with behavioral prescriptions, and govern the way individuals perceive and interact with groups. Changes to social settings caused by migration or cultural change force us to adapt to new social norms, and to interact with individuals whose group identity is different from our own. I will discuss two studies looking at the way cognitive learning processes account for the way people learn about behavior associated with groups. Both projects used a multiplayer game setting, where trial-by-trial observations and decisions could be tracked and analyzed using computational learning models. In the first study, participants played the game with bot-players that displayed a variety of social norms. We found that active behaviors were learned faster than omissions, and harmful behaviors were more readily attributed to all group members than beneficial behaviors, making some social norms last longer than others. In a second study, we examine whether different learning mechanisms are used for group-level attribution for in-group players and out-group players. Our results show that participants gave more weight to negative actions done by outgroup players and generalized these behaviors to all other outgroup players, thus supporting intergroup bias. This approach highlights the importance of cognitive processes in the formation and support of collective behavioral phenomena, and can inform future investigations of group-level learning and cross-cultural adaptation.