research

People form beliefs in a world where evidence is often indirect, ambiguous, or inaccessible. I’m interested in how we learn to leverage our social and informational environments to form accurate beliefs in the face of impoverished data. I study the cognitive building blocks that we use to learn from socially mediated information, and how they’re adaptive (or maladaptive) in modern contexts like social media and AI.

output

Orticio, E., Meyer, M., & Kidd, C. (2024). Exposure to detectable inaccuracies makes children more diligent fact-checkers of novel claims. In Nature Human Behaviour. [journal link] [free link] [press release]

Orticio, E., Martí, L., Bi, B., O’Shaughnessy, D., & Kidd, C. (in revision). Judgments and endorsements of political statements are influenced by speaker identity.

Orticio, E. & Kidd, C. (2024). Shifting your opinion makes you change your factual beliefs without evidence. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Orticio, E., Meyer, M., & Kidd, C. (2023). Children adapt their evidentiary standards to their informational environment. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Orticio, E., Martí, L., & Kidd, C. (2022). Social prevalence is rationally integrated in belief updating. In Open Mind. [open access link] [press release]

Orticio, E., Martí, L., & Kidd, C. (2021). Beliefs are most swayed by social prevalence under uncertainty. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Orticio, E., & Christie, S. (2020). Object bias disrupts rule-based generalization in adults across domains. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]