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    "title": "When Seating Matters: Modeling Graded Social Attitudes as Bayesian Inference",
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    "abstract": "Humans can quickly infer social relationships from minimal cues, such as where people choose to sit in a meeting room. We investigated how people make graded, context-sensitive judgments about social attitudes beyond simple proximity-based heuristics. Using controlled seating scenarios, we compared participants' judgments to the predictions of Bayesian models: the interaction-probability model, which captures how one person's seat choice affects the probability that another person will initiate the conversation, and the interaction-cost model, which accounts for the effort required based on how far apart they sit from each other. Results showed that participants' inferences aligned best with the interaction-cost model, indicating sensitivity to effort and moving trajectory, rather than relying solely on proximity. Our findings suggest that higher-order cognition refines perceptual cues, enabling nuanced, graded social reasoning essential for complex social interactions.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Social cognition; Theory of Mind; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Symbolic computational modeling"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10d930rk",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Zihan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Julian",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Jara-Ettinger",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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