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]]> 2021-07-11 16:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ekaterinaastoilova/projects2021/wish/1644609489 Reasoning Through Ambiguity: Human Knowledge, Inference and Belief Updating ekaterinaastoilova https://padlet.com/ekaterinaastoilova/projects2021/wish/1651631613 Supervisor: Stephen Dewitt

Abstract: Our world is complex and ambiguous. Everyday life requires that we make inferences and judgements from the often limited information that is available to us. A vast range of knowledge about the world has been theorised to underlie our everyday reasoning abilities. However, research has mostly approached the study of human reasoning with constrained paradigms, preventing participants from drawing on their knowledge to arrive at judgements and thereby researchers from understanding how judgements are made in everyday situations. In contrast, we present participants with an ambiguous scenario closely resembling everyday social interactions and observe the judgements they form about an ambiguous gesture, as well as how the latter update in light of two subsequent additional pieces of ambiguous information. We find participants draw on high-level general knowledge about behavioural patterns to make a range of causal inferences from ambiguous cues to personal attributes and ultimately form different judgements of the scenario. As participants subsequently encounter new information, beliefs in the sample tend to converge rather than polarise, and belief updates away from initial judgements are observed in response to information tending to conflict with the latter. Present findings form an important contribution to the pursuit of a more comprehensive understanding of everyday human reasoning.]]> 2021-07-15 22:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ekaterinaastoilova/projects2021/wish/1651631613