{"pk":49327,"title":"Social Learning Shapes Moral Strategy Selection","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Decision making; Social cognition; Computational Modeling"}],"section":"Abstracts with Oral Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/024054w8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Rachel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Calcott","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard","department":""},{"first_name":"Fiery","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cushman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49327/galley/37288/download/"}]}