Dorfman Hayley M, Dong Bryan J W, McLaughlin Katie A, Phelps Elizabeth A
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
The Ballmer Institute for Children's Behavioral Health, University of Oregon, Portland, Oregon 97211, USA.
Learn Mem. 2025 Jan 27;32(1). doi: 10.1101/lm.054047.124. Print 2025 Jan.
Agency beliefs influence how humans learn from different contexts and outcomes. Research demonstrates that stressors, such as exposure to early-life adversity (ELA), are associated with both agency beliefs and learning, but how these processes interact remains unclear. The current study investigated whether exposure to ELA influences agency and interacts with reinforcement learning in adults. Replicating prior behavioral and computational work, ELA resulted in decreased learning, while increased adversity severity was associated with decreased latent agency beliefs. These findings suggest that exposure to adversity in childhood has a nuanced impact on reinforcement learning and agency beliefs in adulthood.
主体信念会影响人类如何从不同情境和结果中学习。研究表明,诸如早年经历逆境(ELA)等压力源与主体信念和学习都有关联,但这些过程如何相互作用仍不清楚。当前的研究调查了早年经历逆境是否会影响主体信念,并与成年人的强化学习相互作用。重复先前的行为和计算研究工作,早年经历逆境导致学习能力下降,而逆境严重程度增加与潜在主体信念下降有关。这些发现表明,童年时期经历逆境对成年后的强化学习和主体信念有微妙的影响。