School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Sci Rep. 2024 Jul 18;14(1):16627. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-67369-z.
Humans learn both directly, from own experience, and via social communication, from the experience of others. They also often integrate these two sources of knowledge to make predictions and choices. We hypothesized that when faced with the need to integrate communicated information into personal experience, people would represent the average of experienced exemplars with greater accuracy. In two experiments, Mturk users estimated the mean of consecutively and rapidly presented number sequences that represented bonuses ostensibly paid by different providers on a crowdsource platform. Participants who expected integrating these values with verbal information about possible change in bonuses were more accurate in extracting the means of the values compared to participants who did not have such expectation. While our study focused on socially communicated information, the observed effect may potentially extend to other forms of information integration. We suggest that expected integration of experience with additional information facilitates an abstract representation of personal experiences.
人类既可以通过自身经验直接学习，也可以通过与他人的社会交流从他人的经验中学习。他们还经常整合这两种知识来源来进行预测和选择。我们假设，当人们需要将所传达的信息整合到个人经验中时，他们会更准确地表示经验样本的平均值。在两项实验中，MTurk 用户估计了连续快速呈现的数字序列的平均值，这些数字序列代表了在众包平台上不同提供者支付的奖金。与没有这种预期的参与者相比，预期将这些值与关于奖金可能变化的口头信息相结合的参与者，在提取值的平均值时更准确。虽然我们的研究集中在社会交流的信息上，但观察到的效果可能会扩展到其他形式的信息整合。我们认为，预期将经验与其他信息相结合，有助于对个人经验进行抽象表示。
