3 papers
cs.MA2025
Uncertainty, bias and the institution bootstrapping problem
Stavros Anagnou, Christoph Salge, Peter R. Lewis
Institutions play a critical role in enabling communities to manage common-pool resources and avert tragedies of the commons. However, a fundamental issue arises: Individuals typic…
cs.MA2024
Normative Feeling: Socially Patterned Affective Mechanisms
Stavros Anagnou, Daniel Polani, Christoph Salge
Breaking a norm elicits both material and emotional consequences, yet how this coupling arose evolutionarily remains unclear. We investigate this question in light of emerging work…
cs.MA2014
Don't Believe Everything You Hear; Preserving Relevant Information by Discarding Social Information
Christoph Salge, Daniel Polani
Integrating information gained by observing others via Social Bayesian Learning can be beneficial for an agent's performance, but can also enable population wide information cascad…