Individual Differences in Learning Social and Nonsocial Network Structures

Autor/inn/en	Tompson, Steven H.; Kahn, Ari E.; Falk, Emily B.; Vettel, Jean M.; Bassett, Danielle S.
Titel	Individual Differences in Learning Social and Nonsocial Network Structures
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45 (2019) 2, S.253-271 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Tompson, Steven H.) ORCID (Bassett, Danielle S.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000580
Schlagwörter	Individual Differences; Social Networks; Social Cognition; Network Analysis; Learning Processes; College Students; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individueller Unterschied; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Soziale Kognition; Netzplantechnik; Learning process; Lernprozess; Collegestudent
Abstract	How do people acquire knowledge about which individuals belong to different cliques or communities? And to what extent does this learning process differ from the process of learning higher-order information about complex associations between nonsocial bits of information? Here, the authors use a paradigm in which the order of stimulus presentation forms temporal associations between the stimuli, collectively constituting a complex network. They examined individual differences in the ability to learn community structure of networks composed of social versus nonsocial stimuli. Although participants were able to learn community structure of both social and nonsocial networks, their performance in social network learning was uncorrelated with their performance in nonsocial network learning. In addition, social traits, including social orientation and perspective-taking, uniquely predicted the learning of social community structure but not the learning of nonsocial community structure. Taken together, the results suggest that the process of learning higher-order community structure in social networks is partially distinct from the process of learning higher-order community structure in nonsocial networks. The study design provides a promising approach to identify neurophysiological drivers of social network versus nonsocial network learning, extending knowledge about the impact of individual differences on these learning processes. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01