Rahul Bhui

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8since 2021 · last 2025
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Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 8 · 1 first-author · 8 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 7 · 1 first-author · 7 since 2021
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2025 Mechanisms of mistrust: A Bayesian account of misinformation learning
abstract
From the intimate realm of personal interactions to the sprawling arena of political discourse, discerning the trustworthy from the dubious is crucial. Here, we present a novel behavioral task and accompanying Bayesian models that allow us to study key aspects of this learning process in a tightly controlled setting. In our task, participants are confronted with several different types of (mis-)information sources, ranging from ones that lie to ones with biased reporting, and have to learn these attributes under varying degrees of feedback. We formalize inference in this setting as a doubly Bayesian learning process where agents simultaneously learn about the ground truth as well as the qualities of an information source reporting on this ground truth. Our model and detailed analyses reveal how participants can generally follow Bayesian learning dynamics, highlighting a basic human ability to learn about diverse information sources. This learning is also reflected in explicit trust reports about the sources. We additionally show how participants approached the inference problem with priors that held sources to be helpful. Finally, when outside feedback was noisier, participants still learned along Bayesian lines but struggled to pick up on biases in information. Our work pins down computationally the generally impressive human ability to learn the trustworthiness of information sources while revealing minor fault lines when it comes to noisier environments and news sources with a slant.
Lion Schulz, Yannick Streicher, Eric Schulz, Rahul Bhui, Peter Dayan
PLoS Comput. Biol.4
2024 Moral flexibility in applying queuing norms can be explained by contractualist principles and game-theoretic considerations
Joshua P. White, Rahul Bhui, Fiery Cushman, Josh Tenenbaum, Sydney Levine
CogSci2
2023 Preferences for descriptiveness and co-explanation in complex explanations
Michael Hattersley, Reed Orchinik, Elliot A. Ludvig, Rahul Bhui
CogSci4
2023 Asymmetric Effects of Shifting Trust in Pro- and Anti-Consensus Climate Scientists
Reed Orchinik, Rachit Dubey, Rahul Bhui
CogSci3
2023 Learning About Scientists from Climate Consensus Messaging
Reed Orchinik, Rachit Dubey, Samuel Gershman, Derek Powell, Rahul Bhui
CogSci5
2023 Influencing Perceptions of Climate Scientist Credibility
Reed Orchinik, Rachit Dubey, Derek Powell, Rahul Bhui
CogSci4
2022 Order effects in choice are selectively modulated by cognitive load
Rahul Bhui
CogSci1
2022 A Resource-Rational Process-Level Account of Violation of Stochastic Dominance
Ardavan Salehi Nobandegani, Thomas R. Shultz, Rahul Bhui
CogSci4