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Are people who agree on something more likely to be right and competent? Evidence suggests that people tend to make this inference. However, standard wisdom of crowds approaches only provide limited normative grounds. Using simulations, we argue that when individuals make independent and unbiased estimates, under a wide range of parameters, individuals whose answers converge with each other tend to have more accurate answers and to be more competent. In 2 experiments (UK participants, total N = 399), we show that participants infer that informants who agree have more accurate answers and are more competent, even when they have no priors, and that these inferences are weakened when the informants are systematically biased. In conclusion, we speculate that inferences from convergence to accuracy and competence might help explain why people deem scientists competent, even if they have little understanding of science.

**Authors:**

Jan Pfänder: Institut Jean Nicod, ENS-PSL, CNRS; Benoît de Courson: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law; Hugo Mercier: CNRS

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How wise is the crowd: Can we infer people are accurate and competent merely because they agree with each other?

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Metaphor comprehension studies have investigated how we process metaphors by pitting conventional metaphors against novel ones. Although these studies have yielded much data on how we comprehend metaphors, no research has examined how we process novel spatial metaphors of time. 
We constructed a stimuli pool of 80 spatial metaphors of time, 40 were conventional time metaphors, whereas the other 40 were novel spatial metaphors of time evenly distributed among Moving-Ego or Moving-Time perspectives and Path or Manner metaphorical motion in the main verb. Ratings by 40 participants showed that the novel metaphors had more possible interpretations, were more ambiguous, difficult to interpret, less apt, and less conventional. A pilot study with 10 participants showed that these properties of metaphors were linked to metaphor interpretation and temporal gesture production in various ways. This study will continue to investigate how we process and represent novel spatial metaphors of time with more participants.

**Authors:**

Emir Akbuga: Koç University; Tilbe Göksun: Koç University

What makes a novel spatial metaphor of time?

Joint improvisation is central to how we navigate the social world, engage and maintain social interactions, and perceive interactions between other people. This project investigates people’s ability to distinguish between joint and individual actions (contemporary joint vs. solo dance improvisation) and the information they use to make this determination. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to identify whether two people were improvising dance movements together or alone. Experiment 2 explored how much people’s decision-making relies on information about the dancers’ facial expressions and gaze direction. Overall, results showed we can accurately identify improvised joint actions, even when the actors’ faces and gaze direction are occluded.

**Authors:**

Trinidad Belén Speranza: National Scientific and Technical Research Council; Ivonnia M Flores Bravo: Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina; Verónica Ramenzoni: National Scientific and Technological Council of Argentina

Joint Improvisation; Perception of Togetherness in Contemporary Dance Performance

Language-specific accounts of bilingual learning advantages suggest that advantages in language learning are tied to an individual’s linguistic experience, with learning advantages stemming from transfer effects between known and to-be-learnt language features. To test this hypothesis, we trained Singapore English-Mandarin bilinguals on a synthesised alveolar-retroflex [tsʰuə́n]-[ʈʂʰuə́n] contrast with a bimodal distributional learning paradigm. We reasoned that participants with higher Mandarin understanding proficiencies would show larger distributional learning effects due to transfer between real-world Mandarin experience and the training stimuli. We examined overall learning effects in a pilot study (N = 20) and a preregistered main study (N = 50). We found evidence of learning in both the pilot and the main study. We also found evidence of a transfer effect tied to individual Mandarin skills, with larger learning effects linked to higher Mandarin understanding proficiencies. This study demonstrates specific advantages of language background on perceptual learning at the individual level.

**Authors:**

Hannah L. Goh: Nanyang Technological University; Suzy J. Styles: Nanyang Technological University

A preregistered investigation of language-specific distributional learning advantages in English-Mandarin bilingual adults

The Green IT approach questions the environmental, social and economic impact of digital technology. Design fiction is a discipline that can guide behaviors in favor of Green IT by building new imaginaries. However, to our knowledge, few studies assess the impact of narratives of possible future on behavioral intentions. To answer this question, we conducted a study with 388 participants, examining the impact of 14 different scenarios of possible digital futures on individual perceptions. The results showed that, for individuals with already a high level of Green IT practices, the fear dimension of scenarios has a preeminent impact on their intention to further increase these behaviors, whereas people with little practice of Green IT are more sensitive to confidence and the presence of solutions. These results pave the way for the integration of specific technological narratives within the construction of future public policies in favor of Green IT.

**Authors:**

Julie Rochat: b<>com; Martin Ragot: b<>com; Jean-Marc Josset: b<>com

Design fiction and Green IT: Impact of foresight scenarios on behavioral intention

Reading acquisition primarily relies on orthographic learning.
Behavioral studies show that familiarity with a novel word’s
pronunciation facilitates learning, particularly in semantically
meaningful contexts. Two main components of orthographic
learning are commonly described: perceptual processing of
the visual stimulus, to infer corresponding phonological rep-
resentations, and “pronunciation correction”, to correct errors
from perceptual processing. Currently, pronunciation correc-
tion has not been featured in reading acquisition computa-
tional models. This study uses BRAID-Acq, a reading ac-
quisition model, to implement and compare two pronunciation
correction mechanisms (an “online” and a “post-processing”
variant). We simulated learning of words with and without
prior phonological knowledge and explored the impact of con-
text strength and size on learning. Results indicate that both
mechanisms improve decoding. However, the post-processing
mechanism induced implausible lexicalization for words with-
out prior phonological knowledge, while the online mecha-
nism did not. Overall, our simulation results suggest that pro-
nunciation correction could be construed as an online process.

**Authors:**

Alexandra Steinhilber: Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition; Sylviane Valdois: CNRS et Université Grenoble Alpes; Julien Diard: CNRS - Université Grenoble Alpes

Comparing online and post-processing pronunciation correction during orthographic incidental learning: A computational study with the BRAID-Acq model

To succeed in social situations, we must learn how social cues predict subsequent events. How do we quickly form associations between a variety of social cues, such as individuals signaling their current emotion state, and social outcomes? To address this question, we developed a task in which participants viewed images of individuals conveying different emotions and searched among these images to gain rewards. Rewards were associated with either individuals’ identities or emotion cues. Across four experiments (N=720), individuals learned about rewards more efficiently from individual identity cues versus a wide variety of emotion cues. Participants also generalized cue-outcome associations more easily for individuals versus emotions. Learning was worse if participants experienced a change in the association rule, especially when switching from learning individual-based associations to emotion-based associations. Overall, we show that social cue type influences how associations between cues and rewards are learned, with implications for understanding learning in social contexts.

**Authors:**

Rista C Plate: University of Pennsylvania; Emily R. Perkins: University of Pennsylvania; Rebecca Waller: University of Pennsylvania; Martin Zettersten: Princeton University

Learning and generalizing associations between social cues and outcomes

While the impact of social cognition on novel word learning has been extensively studied in monolingual populations, limited research has investigated its role in multilingual children with and without autism spectrum disorder. This study examined the role of multilingualism on the acquisition of novel English words under directly addressed and overhearing conditions. Participants included four groups of children with different language status (multilingual and monolingual and diagnostic status (typically developing and autistic). The results revealed that the learning preferences vary across participant groups depending on their language and diagnostic statuses. Additionally, dynamic patterns of novel word learning were unveiled, demonstrating the influence of English vocabulary proficiency on multilingual children's learning process. The findings highlighted the complex role of multilingualism on driving the formation of learning preference for typical developing and autistic children.

**Authors:**

Jinghong NING: PolyU; Anqi Hu: University of Delaware; Zhenghan Qi: Northeastern University; Li Sheng: PolyU

Novel Word Learning in Multilingual Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: Roles of Social Cognition, Multilingualism and Vocabulary Proficiency

The recent surge in the use of AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT has led to new challenges in academia. These chatbots can enable student plagiarism and the submission of misleading content, undermining educational objectives. With plagiarism detectors unreliable in the face of this issue, educational institutions have been struggling to update their policies apace. This study assesses the effectiveness of sending warning messages - a common strategy used to discourage unethical use of ChatGPT - and investigates the use of the illusion of explanatory depth (IOED) paradigm as an alternative intervention. An international sample of students was asked to rate their understanding of, likelihood to use, and moral stance toward ChatGPT-generated text in assignments both before and after either reading a cautionary university message or explaining how ChatGPT works. Results showed that the explanation task did lead to the expected reduction in ratings of understanding, but despite this, neither moral acceptability nor likelihood to use decreased along with it. Similarly, reading the cautionary message neither resulted in a change in likelihood to use nor in moral acceptability, although it unexpectedly increased ratings of understanding. The results suggest that tackling students’ understanding of ChatGPT is insufficient when it comes to deterring its unethical use, and that future interventions might want to have students reflect on moral issues surrounding the use of AI-powered chatbots.

**Authors:**

Yomn Elsayed: Erasmus University Rotterdam; Steven Verheyen: Erasmus University Rotterdam

ChatGPT and the Illusion of Explanatory Depth

Studies on interactions between procedural and declarative learning have focused on largely on competition during encoding, consolidation, or use (retrieval). Less attention has been paid to interactions between the representations created by each system. In a behavioral study, we demonstrated that information from both declarative and procedural learning can contribute to response selection. Participants were instructed to use a completely diagnostic, verbalizable, shape-based rule to categorize exemplars and received feedback after each trial. However, the categories also differed probabilistically in their color distributions. Participants used both color (learned procedurally) and shape (learned declaratively) to categorize exemplars, making faster responses when both sources indicated the same category judgement, and slower when they conflicted. Debriefing confirmed that most participants were unaware of the color distributions (aware participants were analyzed separately). This result suggests that both the color (procedural) and shape (declarative) information contributed to response selection.

**Authors:**

Priya B. Kalra: University of Western Ontario; Laura Batterink: University of Western Ontario; John Paul Minda: University of Western Ontario

Procedural and Declarative Category Learning Simultaneously Contribute to Downstream Processes

Human moral judgments are both precise, with clear intuitions about right and wrong, and at the same time obscure, as they seem to result from principles whose logic often escapes us. The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications requires an understanding of this subtle logic if we are to embed moral considerations in artificial systems. Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have emerged as a valuable interactive tool for investigating moral behavior. However, being value-based algorithms, they face difficulty when it comes to explaining deontological, non-consequentialist moral judgments. Here, in a multi-agent learning scenario based on the Producer-Scrounger Game, we show that RL agents can converge towards apparently non-consequentialist outcomes, provided the algorithm accounts for the temporal value of actions. The implications of our findings extend to integrating morality into AI agents by elucidating the interplay between learning strategies, characteristics for accounting temporal values, and methods of considering the opponent’s payoff.

**Authors:**

Ali Shiravand: École Normale Supérieure - PSL; Jean-Baptiste André: École Normale Supérieure - PSL

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