There is increasing pressure on social media companies to reduce the spread of misinformation on their platforms. However, they would prefer not to be the arbiters of truth as the truth can be subjective or otherwise hard to determine. Instead, they would prefer that social media users themselves show better discernment when deciding which information to share. Here we show that allowing people to share only those social media posts that they have indicated are true significantly improves sharing discernment, as measured by the difference in the probability of sharing true information versus the probability of sharing false information. Because it doesn’t require social media companies to be the arbiters of truth, this self-censorship intervention can be employed in situations where social media companies suspect that individuals are propagating misinformation but are not sufficiently confident in their suspicions to directly censor the individuals involved. As such, self-censorship can usefully supplement externally imposed (i.e. traditional) censorship in reducing the propagation of false information on social media platforms.


Self-Censorship Appears to be an Effective Way of Reducing the Spread of Misinformation on Social Media

How and why do people share opinions online? In research conducted offline, the social identity of the audience is a key factor: whether they are composed of one’s ingroup or outgroup affects what people share and why. Do people behave similarly and for similar reasons online? To test this, we put participants (N = 326) in imaginary forums belonging to their ingroup and outgroup. In each, people selected statements to share, along with reasons for doing so. The results showed a high degree of heterogeneity; people shared nearly all kinds of statements with both audiences, for a variety of reasons. However, there were also consistent patterns. Identity expression was the most common reason for sharing to both audiences, but this led to different things being shared to each. To the ingroup, people preferred to share statements expressing ingroup beliefs, while to the outgroup, they preferred statements expressing universal beliefs.

Online communication to the ingroup and the outgroup: the role of identity in the “what” and “why” of information sharing

Globalized humanity is changing and needs to change. Consider climate change and extreme weather events, geopolitical tensions and conflict, and rising inequalities within and between nations. To these contemporary adaptational challenges, human cognition and action are changing – both individually as a person and collectively as a species. These changes occur at times blindly, but all the while accompanied by human strivings to gain foresights and perspectives beyond the current horizon. Given the importance of culture as a mechanism for human adaptation, anthropology’s answer has been cultural evolution – an attempt to understand and explain cumulative cultural changes over the millennia. Whereas this has provided us with the knowledge and insights into long-term macro-level cultural dynamics, micro-level psychological knowledge complements our understanding of how and why macro-level cultural changes occur. Moreover, psychological insights are imperative in contemplating how to cultivate and craft human cultures – behaviour change, if you will – to navigate the uncharted waters into our collective futures. The psychology of cultural dynamics has accumulated knowledge and insights into micro-level cognitive and communicative processes that constitute and are constituted by macro-level cultural processes. In this presentation, I will examine the micro-macro dynamics of cultural maintenance and change mediated by dynamically changing social networks at the meso-level and outline future directions for the psychology of cultural dynamics.

The Psychology of Cultural Dynamics

Sustainability and folk theories of artefact creation

T.31: Human-Computer Interaction

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The 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society will take place in Sydney, Australia as a modified hybrid conference. Presentations from the main-session room will be live-streamed every day for all events. This will include all invited talks and award sessions. Recordings of all CogSci 2023 sessions will be made available for on-demand viewing after the conference. 
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The 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society presents the latest research across cognitive science and highlights the theme of Cognition in Context.

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Since the cognitive revolution, psychology and other cognitive sciences have shifted our research focus toward conducting primarily “basic” studies in laboratory and other nonnaturalistic settings with convenience samples that enable us to isolate mechanisms of interest. While this shift in research approach has expedited the rate of discovery in one sense, the shift away from studying naturally occurring behaviors in a variety of settings with diverse groups of people has created a tension—it has limited both what we have been able to learn and our ability to apply our findings to contemporary problems in the world. In this talk I will use examples from research on criminal justice, education, health, and environmental disparities to discuss the implications of our sampling strategies for the advancement of theories in the cognitive sciences. I will then conclude by discussing the implications of our methodological practices for the application of our theories in the modern world.

Keynote: Neil Lewis - Whose minds matter? Theoretical and practical implications of representation in the Cognitive Sciences

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Join us for CogSci2022! Our 44th Annual Conference will be centered around the theme of diversity, with an accompanying range of keynotes and invited speakers who themselves highlight the diversity of our field. Our three symposia are Cognition across Diverse Populations, Cognition within Diverse Societies, and Global Challenges for Cognitive Science. The conference is being offered in a fully hybrid environment for onsite and online attendees.
 
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CogSci 2022

The 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society highlighted research on the theme Cognitive Diversity in addition to the full breadth and diversity of research topics offered by the society’s membership. 





**Session Chair: **Barbara Malt 
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**Technical Session Chair: **Josephine Bowerman 
**Session Description: ** Threats to the health of our environment are numerous, ranging from air and water pollution to deforestation, overpopulation, and climate change. Much research in fields such as biology, earth science, and engineering is devoted to documenting, understanding, and attempting to mitigate the harm. The root cause of all such problems, however, is human behavior. As such, changes to human behavior—and the internal processes that drive them—are essential to solutions. Cognitive scientists therefore have a critical role to play in sustainability research and interventions (e.g., Jaipal, 2014; Weir, 2018, 2019).

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Symposium 10: Conceptual foundations of sustainability

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**Dear Colleagues,**

Welcome to the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society! 

This year’s conference brings together the latest research from all Cognitive Science and also highlights this year’s theme **Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds.** 

The program features four plenary speakers: Friederike Range (University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna), Onur Güntürkün (Ruhr University Bochum), Julia Fischer (University of Göttingen), and Erich Jarvis (The Rockefeller University). The keynotes and invited symposia showcase the broad spectrum of ideas that encompass the conference theme of comparative cognition. 

Further, the program includes the Rumelhart Prize keynote presentation by Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago), and symposia to celebrate the winner of the Elman Prize: Wei Ji Ma (New York University), the Heineken Award winner Robert Zatorre (McGill University), and the Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prizes session.

The program committee for CogSci 2021 received 1,025 submissions, including 710 full papers, 275 member abstracts, 8 publication-based talks, as well as 15 proposals for symposia, and 17 for workshops and tutorials. After a rigorous review process, the committee selected 152 papers for oral presentation and inclusion in the conference proceedings (14.8%), 332 papers for poster presentation and inclusion in the proceedings (32.4%), and 175 papers for poster presentation with inclusion of abstracts in the proceedings (17.1%) We also selected 275 submitted member abstracts. In addition, we accepted 6 publication-based talks, 12 symposia, and 9 workshops and tutorials to make for an exciting and inclusive program.

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Self-Censorship Appears to be an Effective Way of Reducing the Spread of Misinformation on Social Media

Online communication to the ingroup and the outgroup: the role of identity in the “what” and “why” of information sharing

The Psychology of Cultural Dynamics

Sustainability and folk theories of artefact creation

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