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    "pk": 49327,
    "title": "Social Learning Shapes Moral Strategy Selection",
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    "abstract": "Social norms—perceptions of what is commonly done in a given context—serve as powerful signals for guiding moral decision-making in complex dilemmas. We investigate whether individuals adjust their moral strategies in response to information about others' judgments, and explore the underlying learning processes that support these shifts. Using a computational approach, we compare two models of social learning: (1) Decision Biasing, where social influence temporarily alters choices without affecting underlying values, and (2) Value Shaping, where social feedback directly updates individuals' moral value representations. Our results show that a Decision Biasing model fails to adequately explain the observed data, while a Value Shaping model better accounts for the persistence of moral adaptation. Taken together, these data suggest that social norms may play a role in shaping not only immediate moral choices but also the strategies people use to make them.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Social cognition; Computational Modeling"
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    "section": "Abstracts with Oral Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/024054w8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Rachel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Calcott",
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            "institution": "Harvard",
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        {
            "first_name": "Fiery",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Cushman",
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            "institution": "Harvard University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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