语言一致性的社会传递：观察强化学习的作用

People align their linguistic use in conversations, and it has been proposed that such linguistic alignment facilitates mutual understanding and social rapport. However, the mechanisms through which perspective alignment is socially transmitted across individuals remain unclear. Here, we combined behavioural experimentation and computational learning models to investigate whether, and if so, how observing aligned and unaligned responses in others affects people's perspective alignment in subsequent language use. Participants completed a three-session design. First, in a baseline session, they