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    "pk": 28881,
    "title": "Complex exploration dynamics from simple heuristics in a collective learningenvironment",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Effective problem solving requires both exploration and ex-ploitation. We analyze data from a group problem-solving taskto gain insight into how people use information from past expe-riences and from others to achieve explore-exploit trade-offs incomplex environments. The behavior we observe is consistentwith the use of simple, reinforcement-based heuristics. Partic-ipants increase exploration immediately after experiencing alow payoff, and decrease exploration immediately after expe-riencing a high or improved payoff. We suggest that whetheran outcome is perceived as “high” or “low” is a dynamic func-tion of the outcome information available to participants. Thedegree to which the distribution of observed information re-flects the true range of possible outcomes plays an importantrole in determining whether or not this heuristic is adaptive ina given environment.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "exploration; exploitation; networks; social learn-ing"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9xm5w299",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Sabina",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Sloman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Robert",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Goldstone",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Indiana University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Cleotilde",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gonzalez",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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