“…For example, the learner may want to maintain their reputation, or the teacher may want to communicate that they care about a learner's well-being. Currently, our utility functions have two terms -informativity and communication cost -but it is also straightforward to account for these other goals, by adding more terms to the teacher and learner utility functions (Yoon, Tessler, Goodman, & Frank, 2020;Powell, 2022;Hung, Thomas, Radkani, Tenenbaum, & Saxe, 2022;.…”