{"pk":26973,"title":"Mental Representations and Computational Modeling of Context-Specific HumanNorm Systems","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Human behavior is frequently guided by social and moralnorms; in fact, no societies, no social groups could exist with-out norms. However, there are few cognitive science ap-proaches to this central phenomenon of norms. While therehas been some progress in developing formal representationsof norm systems (e.g., deontological approaches), we do notyet know basic properties of human norms: how they arerepresented, activated, and learned. Further, what computa-tional models can capture these properties, and what algo-rithms could learn them? In this paper we describe initial ex-periments on human norm representations in which the contextspecificity of norms features prominently. We then provide aformal representation of norms using Dempster-Shafer Theorythat allows a machine learning algorithm to learn norms un-der uncertainty from these human data, while preserving theircontext specificity.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"social cognition"},{"word":"moral psychology"},{"word":"computa-tional modeling"},{"word":"machine learning"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22z3k0f8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Vasanth","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sarathy","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tufts University","department":""},{"first_name":"Matthias","middle_name":"","last_name":"Scheutz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tufts University","department":""},{"first_name":"Yoed","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kenett","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""},{"first_name":"Mowafak","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Allaham","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Illinois at Chicago","department":""},{"first_name":"Joseph","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Austerweil","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconson","department":""},{"first_name":"Bertram","middle_name":"F.","last_name":"Malle","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T23:30:00+05:30","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26973/galley/16609/download/"}]}