{"pk":26346,"title":"Coordinate to cooperate or compete:Abstract goals and joint intentions in social interaction","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Successfully navigating the social world requires reasoningabout both high-level strategic goals, such as whether to co-operate or compete, as well as the low-level actions neededto achieve those goals. While previous work in experimentalgame theory has examined the former and work on multi-agentsystems has examined the later, there has been little work in-vestigating behavior in environments that require simultaneousplanning and inference across both levels. We develop a hierar-chical model of social agency that infers the intentions of otheragents, strategically decides whether to cooperate or competewith them, and then executes either a cooperative or competi-tive planning program. Learning occurs across both high-levelstrategic decisions and low-level actions leading to the emer-gence of social norms. We test predictions of this model inmulti-agent behavioral experiments using rich video-game likeenvironments. By grounding strategic behavior in a formalmodel of planning, we develop abstract notions of both co-operation and competition and shed light on the computationalnature of joint intentionality.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"joint intention"},{"word":"Cooperation"},{"word":"coordination"},{"word":"rein-forcement learning"},{"word":"teams"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29z7r7md","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Max","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kleiman-Weiner","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Mark","middle_name":"K.","last_name":"Ho","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""},{"first_name":"Joseph","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Austerweil","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Littman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""},{"first_name":"Joshua","middle_name":"B.","last_name":"Tenenbaum","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26346/galley/15982/download/"}]}