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Instead, participants follow a two-stage learning process akin to satisficing: they behave probabilistically until they acquire enough information to trigger a mental threshold and then their behaviors stabilize.

We find that dominant theories of social learning perform poorly at capturing how ppl learn conventions in coordination games that task them with matching behaviors in social networks. Participants' behavior systematically deviates from imitation and optimization (including Bayesian inference).