Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

People often use norms to coordinate behavior andaccomplish shared goals. But how do people learn andrepresent norms? Here, we formalize the process by whichcollaborating individuals (1) reason about group plans duringinteraction, and (2) use task features to abstractly representnorms. In Experiment 1, we test the assumptions of our modelin a gridworld that requires coordination and contrast it with a“best response” model. In Experiment 2, we use our model totest whether group members’ joint planning relies more onstate features independent of other agents (landmark-basedfeatures) or state features determined by the configuration ofagents (agent-relative features).