Political reinforcement learners

L Schulz, R Bhui - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Politics can seem home to the most calculating and yet least rational elements of humanity.
How might we systematically characterize this spectrum of political cognition? Here, we …

How dopamine shapes trust beliefs

BA Schuster, C Lamm - Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Learning whom to trust is integral for healthy relationships and social cohesion, and
atypicalities in trust learning are common across a range of clinical conditions, including …

A rational model of vigilance in motivated communication

K Oktar, T Sumers, T Griffiths - … of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2024 - escholarship.org
We are able to learn from others through a combination of trust and vigilance: we trust and
believe people who are reliable and have our interests at heart; we ignore those who are …

[PDF][PDF] Facts over partisanship: Evidence-based updating of trust in partisan sources

G Lois, E Tsakas, A Riedl - arnoriedl.com
A prominent explanation for the proliferation of political misinformation and the growing
belief polarization is that people engage in motivated reasoning to affirm their ideology and …

[PDF][PDF] Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry

BA Schuster, C Lamm - uscholar.univie.ac.at
Learning whom to trust is integral for healthy relationships and social cohesion, and
atypicalities in trust learning are common across a range of clinical conditions, including …