Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

In this paper, we first introduce the `complex hidden profile', a previously overlooked category of hidden profiles that arises from complex inferential relations among arguments. Second, in order to investigate the conditions under which interrelated arguments can generate hidden profiles, we introduce a novel Bayesian agent-based framework for collective reasoning with complex argument structures. Finally, we show that that many possible argument structures can generate hidden profiles, even when agents do not have any information in common.