APS
2022 APS Annual Convention
Expectations Versus Experience: Prediction Error in Social Cognition
This symposium explores how prediction error—the difference between experience and expectation—supports social cognition. Speakers will discuss how prediction errors cue people to generate explanations for others’ behavior, guide reference dependent impression formation, support learning about whom to affiliate with, and enable ideological belief updating.
Chairs & Discussants
- Leor HackelChair
University of Southern California - Peter Mende-SiedleckiCoChair
University of Delaware
Presentations
- Mentalizing and Impression Updating Following Social Prediction ErrorMinjae Kim
- Reference-Dependent Impressions Bias Social Decision-MakingPeter Mende-Siedlecki
- Instrumental Learning of Social Affiliation through Outcome and IntentionLeor Hackel
- The Effect of Prediction Error on Belief Update across the Political SpectrumMadalina Vlasceanu
