Seeing (can help you infer what someone else) is believing (with Sholei Croom)

We were delighted to be joined by Sholei Croom, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins working with Chaz Firestone. We open this episode, as always, by chatting about Sholei's journey in science. We then turn to their PNAS paper, "Seeing and Understanding Epistemic Actions" by Croom, Zhou, and Firestone (2023). This paper explores whether third-party observers can infer what other people are trying to learn simply by observing their actions. As we talk about in the episode, this project highlights an underexplored aspect of social perception: human learners can intuit what others are trying to learn simply from their actions.