A fantastic blog post on our recent PNAS paper! It elegantly describes our rather complex findings and discusses their implications for bias reduction. I love the AI-generated podcast version, too. Thanks to PROCKY.bsky.social! davehodges.substack.com/p/the-hidden-g…

This research advances a mechanistic reward learning account of social learning strategies. Through experiments & simulations, it shows how people learn to learn from others, dynamically shaping the processes involved in cultural evolution. David Schultner nature.com/articles/s4156…

🎊 New paper out! In this Trends in Cognitive Sciences Forum, we (with Lucas Molleman and Björn Lindström) summarize how reward learning can lead to adaptive social learning. We also explore the broader consequences for cultural evolution: cell.com/trends/cogniti…