Without realising it, you’re always thinking ahead, making predictions about what might happen next. To keep safe, you anticipate that a fire might burn you or that a fast car might cause you harm. In social situations, you anticipate other people’s behaviours. To learn how to thrive in the world, we rely on schema that are reasonably accurate to base our predictions on, so we need to refine our models when new information tells us that our predictions are wrong.