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Benedek Kurdi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois, focusing on experimental psychology. His research aims to understand how humans adaptively respond to new information, particularly in the context of basic social processes. Kurdi studies ordinary decisions that impact critical aspects of well-being and survival, exploring beliefs individuals hold about others. He employs a mix of traditional online laboratory experiments and computational methodologies, examining various learning paradigms such as reinforcement learning and causal learning. His work delves into the mechanisms involved in updating impressions of individuals based on social identities like gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity.
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