Learning From Others: The Consequences of Psychological Reasoning for Human Learning

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 341-351

  Shafto, Patrick ^a   Goodman, Noah D ^b   Frank, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian model; learning; reasoning; social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863222815     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691612448481     Document Type: Article

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