Fiery Cushman

People Teach with Rewards and Punishments as Communication not Reinforcements

2018

Carrots and sticks motivate behavior, and people can teach new behaviors to other organisms, such as children or non-human animals, by tapping into their reward learning mechanisms. But how people teach with reward and punishment …

Quantitative causal selection patterns in token causation

2019

When many events contributed to an outcome, people consistently judge some more causal than others, based in part on the prior probabilities of those events. For instance, when a tree bursts into flames, people judge …