Using a self-paced reading paradigm, we show that, from just the mention of a role, people build rapid expectations about how other people will act, what they know, and whether they can be interchange...

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Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated exceptional performance in a variety of linguistic tasks. LLMs primarily combine information across words in a sentence using...

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People's goal-directed behaviors are influenced by their cognitive biases, and autonomous systems that interact with people should be aware of this. For example, people's attention to objects in their...

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…

The Center for Brain & Mind Health (CBMH) promotes interdisciplinary clinical and translational research leading to the management, diagnosis, treatment of, and

Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity is defined as the motivation to gain information about the actions, relationships, and psychology of others. Little ...

Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways

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Learning requires changing the brain. This typically occurs through experience, study, or instruction. We report an alternate route for humans to a...

Overparenting—taking over and completing developmentally appropriate tasks for children—is pervasive and hurts children's motivation. Can overparenting in early childhood be reduced by simply framing...

People often give instructions whose meaning is ambiguous without further context, expecting that their actions or goals will disambiguate their intentions. How can we build assistive agents that foll...

Job Summary: This position is a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Psychology at UW-Madison. The search is for a job candidate whose exper...

Abstract. The discovery of a new kind of experience can teach an agent what that kind of experience is like. Such a discovery can be epistemically transformative, teaching an agent something they coul...

Much of our thinking focuses on deciding what to do in situations where the space of possible options is too large to evaluate exhaustively. Previous …