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Aug 2026
Mentalizing and heuristics as distinct cognitive strategies in human teaching.
Teaching is a foundational social behaviour that can result from mentally effortful reasoning or cognitively frugal heuristics. When do people use these strategies to teach? Here we investigated this using behavioural experiments and computational modelling with adult participants recruited via Prolific. Experiment 1 (...
S. Harootonian, Thomas L. Griffiths, Y. Niv et al.
· Nature Human Behaviour · 2 citations