Is Repetition Learning a New Approach to Social Learning?

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The more outrage we express, the more likes and retweets we get. And also, of course, the algorithms are learning to show the content that we post to the audiences that are most likely to comment on it. So what we have now that we've never had before is algorithms intervening on social learning processes and cultural evolution in a way that I think is new.

Most of us strive to be good, moral people. When we are doing that striving, what is happening in our brains? Some of our moral inclinations seem pretty automatic and subconscious. Other times we have to sit down and deploy our full cognitive faculties to reason through a tricky moral dilemma. I talk with psychologist Molly Crockett about where our moral intuitions come from, how they can sometimes serve as cover for bad behaviors, and how morality shapes our self-image.

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Molly J. Crockett received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge. She is currently Associate Professor of Psychology and University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.

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