Hertz Uri
Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel.
Proc Biol Sci. 2021 Jun 9;288(1952):20210293. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0293. Epub 2021 Jun 2.
Changes to social settings caused by migration, cultural change or pandemics force us to adapt to new social norms. Social norms provide groups of individuals with behavioural prescriptions and therefore can be inferred by observing their behaviour. This work aims to examine how cognitive learning processes affect adaptation and learning of new social norms. Using a multiplayer game, I found that participants initially complied with various social norms exhibited by the behaviour of bot-players. After gaining experience with one norm, adaptation to a new norm was observed in all cases but one, where an active-harm norm was resistant to adaptation. Using computational learning models, I found that active behaviours were learned faster than omissions, and harmful behaviours were more readily attributed to all group members than beneficial behaviours. These results provide a cognitive foundation for learning and adaptation to descriptive norms and can inform future investigations of group-level learning and cross-cultural adaptation.
由移民、文化变迁或大流行病引起的社会环境变化迫使我们适应新的社会规范。社会规范为个体群体提供行为准则，因此可以通过观察他们的行为来推断。这项工作旨在研究认知学习过程如何影响对新社会规范的适应和学习。通过一个多人游戏，我发现参与者最初会遵守由机器人玩家行为展示的各种社会规范。在获得一种规范的经验后，除了一种情况外，在所有情况下都观察到了对新规范的适应，在这种情况下，一种主动伤害规范难以适应。使用计算学习模型，我发现主动行为比不作为学得更快，并且有害行为比有益行为更容易归因于所有群体成员。这些结果为学习和适应描述性规范提供了认知基础，并可为未来关于群体层面学习和跨文化适应的研究提供参考。
