[//]: # (This readme file was generated on 11/11/22 by Kiera Parece.)
Last updated on 08/13/2023.
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Title of Project: Loopholes: Intuitive understanding of goals and value alignment
[//]: # (Project Members: Sophie Bridgers, Laura Schulz, Tomer Ullman, Maya Taliaferro, Peng Qian, Kiera Parece)
[//]: # (Author/ Project Lead Information)
[//]: # (Name: Sophie Bridgers)
[//]: # (Institution: MIT & Harvard University)
[//]: # (Email: secb@mit.edu)
[//]: # (Author/Principal Investigator Information)
[//]: # (Name: Laura E. Schulz)
[//]: # (Institution: MIT)
[//]: # (Email: lschulz@mit.edu)
[//]: # (Author/Principal Investigator Information)
[//]: # (Name: Tomer Ullman)
[//]: # (Institution: Harvard University)
[//]: # (Email: tullman@fas.harvard.edu)
Project summary: This project examines how people reason about loophole behavior in social interactions. By loophole behavior, we mean acting on a possible (but unintended) interpretation of another person's request or command (e.g., a parent tells their child, “It’s time to put the tablet down,” and the child puts it down on the table but keeps looking at it) . We propose that exploiting a loophole is a means to achieve one’s own goals while reducing the probability or severity of social penalty.
[//]: # (Geographic location of data collection: Cambridge, MA)
[//]: # (Information about funding sources:)
[//]: # (- MIT Simons Center for the Social Brain Postdoctoral Fellowship SB)
[//]: # (- The Jacobs Foundation TDU)
[//]: # (- NSF Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence Grant 2118103 TDU, LS.)
FILES
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Under OSF Storage, there are two folders: Adults and Children.
The Adults folder contains (1) pdfs of experimental surveys and (2) data for three studies with adults exploring Loophole Experience, Loophole Evaluation, and Loophole Prediction.
The Children folder contains pilot data and analysis script for an experiment exploring children's loophole generation and for a study with adults exploring their evalution of children's loophole behavior with their parents.
