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    "pk": 49793,
    "title": "Joint Action and Reward-Seeking in a Social Probability-Learning Task",
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    "abstract": "Despite the prevalence of social learning in humans, the cognitive mechanisms underlying social transmission of behavior are not fully understood. We refine and expand a recently-developed paradigm, the Social Multi-Armed Bandit (SMAB) task, to systematically manipulate social information and measure its effects on human decision-making during predictive learning. We compared a dyadic task, in which social influence is maladaptive, to a control task in which participants receive no task-related social information. We found that misleading social information resulted in more maladaptive choices in the Dyadic than the Control condition, confirming findings from a prior study (Adrian, Siddharth, Baquar, Jung, & Deák, 2019). Although the maladaptive Dyadic social effect attenuated across trials and between two \"games\" (100 trials each), correlations between partners' higher-order response patterns persisted games. These correlated response patterns between individuals within dyads suggest a tendency to emulate higher-order patterns (i.e., heuristics or strategies). The results imply that adults sometimes emulate decision strategies even when the outcome is disadvantageous. They also suggest that social learning may be reflected in higher-order response patterns even after people learn that imitating specific actions is maladaptive.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Decision making; Distributed cognition; Learning; Social cognition; Computer-based experiment"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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        {
            "first_name": "Bar",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yosef",
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            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Gedeon",
            "middle_name": "O",
            "last_name": "Deak",
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            "institution": "UC San Diego",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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