All Thinking is 'Wishful' Thinking.
active inference
epistemic motivation
surprise
Journal
Trends in cognitive sciences
ISSN: 1879-307X
Titre abrégé: Trends Cogn Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9708669
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2020
06 2020
Historique:
received:
30
08
2019
revised:
16
03
2020
accepted:
17
03
2020
pubmed:
15
4
2020
medline:
13
4
2021
entrez:
15
4
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
People often seek new information and eagerly update their beliefs. Other times they avoid information or resist revising their beliefs. What explains those different reactions? Answers to this question often frame information processing as a competition between cognition and motivation. Here, we dissolve this dichotomy by bringing together two theoretical frameworks: epistemic motivation and active inference. Despite evolving from different intellectual traditions, both frameworks attest to the indispensability of motivational considerations to the epistemic process. The imperatives that guide model construction under the epistemic motivation framework can be mapped onto key constructs in active inference. Drawing these connections offers a way of articulating social psychological constructs in terms of Bayesian computations and provides a generative testing ground for future work.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32284177
pii: S1364-6613(20)30079-6
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.03.004
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
413-424Informations de copyright
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