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Thomas L. Griffiths

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Open access 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. · 2 citations

Evolutionary Theory Makes Predictions About Cognition Beyond Rational Optimization

It is found that the source of environmental uncertainty determines cognitive design, with weak priors being favored in environments dominated by change, and evolution maximizes the geometric mean number of offspring over generations, an objective that recurs across optimization problems where outcomes accumulate seque...

C. Turner, Thomas L. Griffiths, Cameron Rouse · 0 citations

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