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Recent debates over adults' theory of mind use have been fueled by surprisingfailures of perspective-taking in communication, suggesting thatperspective-taking can be relatively effortful. How, then, should speakers andlisteners allocate their resources to achieve successful communication? Webegin with the observation that this shared goal induces a natural division oflabor: the resources one agent chooses to allocate toward perspective-takingshould depend on their expectations about the other's allocation. We formalizethis idea in a resource-rational model augmenting recent probabilisticweighting accounts with a mechanism for (costly) control over the degree ofperspective-taking. In a series of simulations, we first derive an intermediatedegree of perspective weighting as an optimal tradeoff between expected costsand benefits of perspective-taking. We then present two behavioral experimentstesting novel predictions of our model. In Experiment 1, we manipulated thepresence or absence of occlusions in a director-matcher task and found thatspeakers spontaneously produced more informative descriptions to account for"known unknowns" in their partner's private view. In Experiment 2, we comparedthe scripted utterances used by confederates in prior work with those producedin interactions with unscripted directors. We found that confederates weresystematically less informative than listeners would initially expect given thepresence of occlusions, but listeners used violations to adaptively make fewererrors over time. Taken together, our work suggests that people are not simply"mindblind"; they use contextually appropriate expectations to navigate thedivision of labor with their partner. We discuss how a resource rationalframework may provide a more deeply explanatory foundation for understandingflexible perspective-taking under processing constraints.

The division of labor in communication: Speakers help listeners account for asymmetries in visual perspective