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DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Saxe (MIT)\, “What people learn from punishment”\, IAST
  General Seminar\, Toulouse: IAST\, June 9\, 2026\, 11:30–12:30\, room Aud
 itorium 3 (Ground floor - TSE Building).\n\nIn human society\, punishment 
 can sometimes teach and enforce social norms of behavior\, but other times
  backfires and undermines the authority's legitimacy. These seemingly cont
 radictory effects of punishment can only be understood by considering the 
 cognitive processes in the minds of human observers of punishment. One cha
 llenge is that in real situations\, participants bring strong priors about
  every element of a punitive setting. Our experiments therefore use vignet
 tes about hypothetical societies to measure what adults and children learn
  from observing punishment\, with experimental control over all of the pri
 ors. A formal cognitive model\, derived from a standard model of how peopl
 emake sense of one another’s actions (Inverse planning for Theory of Mind)
  precisely predicts people’s judgements. Our results show that polarized i
 nterpretations of punishment arise rationally. We also measured and modele
 d the effects of ideological authoritarianism on interpretations of punish
 ment the model predicts that individual differences in authoritarianism ma
 y persist rationally and even deepen as people observe authorities using p
 unishment. Our model illuminates a central tension faced by any authority\
 , from university leaders to parents of toddlers: how the same punitive ch
 oice can communicate social norms to some people\, yet cause loss of legit
 imacy in the eyes of others.
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LOCATION:Toulouse: IAST\, June 9\, 2026\, 11:30–12:30\, room Auditorium 3 (
 Ground floor - TSE Building)
SUMMARY:IAST General Seminar
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.iast.fr/seminars/2026-what-people-learn-punishment
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