ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Cognitive maps of social features enable flexible inference in social networks.
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In order to navigate a complex web of relationships, an individual must learn and represent the connections between people in a social network. However, the sheer size and complexity of the social world makes it impossible to acquire firsthand knowledge of all relations within a network, suggesting that people must make inferences about unobserved relationships to fill in the gaps. Across three studies (
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