Keeping it simple, socially

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 743-744
Author(s):  
Louise Barrett ◽  
Peter Henzi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Nonhuman Primates ◽  
Social Domain ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
Fast And Frugal Heuristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Social Decision Making

Fast and frugal heuristics function accurately and swiftly over a wide range of decision making processes. The performance of these algorithms in the social domain would be an object for research. The use of simple algorithms to investigate social decision-making could prove fruitful in studies of nonhuman primates as well as humans

scholarly journals Pain and social decision-making: New insights from the social framing effect

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruolei Gu ◽  
Jie Liu ◽  
Fang Cui
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Brain Area ◽  
Framing Effect ◽  
Neural Activation ◽  
Social Emotions ◽  
Temporoparietal Junction ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Decision Making

This paper focuses on the social function of painful experience as revealed by recent studies on social decision-making. Observing others suffering from physical pain evokes empathic reactions that can lead to prosocial behavior (e.g., helping others at a cost to oneself), which might be regarded as the social value of pain derived from evolution. Feelings of guilt may also be elicited when one takes responsibility for another’s pain. These social emotions play a significant role in various cognitive processes and may affect behavioral preferences. In addition, the influence of others’ pain on decision-making is highly sensitive to social context. Combining neuroimaging techniques with a novel decision paradigm, we found that when asking participants to trade-off personal benefits against providing help to other people, verbally describing the causal relationship between their decision and other people’s pain (i.e., framing) significantly changed participants’ preferences. This social framing effect was associated with neural activation in the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), which is a brain area that is important in social cognition and in social emotions. Further, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on this region successfully modulated the magnitude of the social framing effect. These findings add to the knowledge about the role of perception of others’ pain in our social life.

scholarly journals Prosocial Influence and Opportunistic Conformity in Adolescents and Young Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 1585-1601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Chierchia ◽  
Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer ◽  
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
Charitable Donations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Decision Making ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Value Of Money

Adolescence is associated with heightened social influence, especially from peers. This can lead to detrimental decision-making in domains such as risky behavior but may also raise opportunities for prosocial behavior. We used an incentivized charitable-donations task to investigate how people revise decisions after learning about the donations of others and how this is affected by age ( N = 220; age range = 11–35 years). Our results showed that the probability of social influence decreased with age within this age range. In addition, whereas previous research has suggested that adults are more likely to conform to the behavior of selfish others than to the behavior of prosocial others, here we observed no evidence of such an asymmetry in midadolescents. We discuss possible interpretations of these findings in relation to the social context of the task, the perceived value of money, and social decision-making across development.

Social Decision-Making in Nonhuman Primates

2017 ◽  
pp. 179-187
Author(s):  
M. Jazayari ◽  
S. Ballesta ◽  
J.-R. Duhamel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Nonhuman Primates ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
Social Decision Making

Social Intelligence and Altruism

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-185
Author(s):  
Daeyeol Lee
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
Social Intelligence Hypothesis ◽  
Neuroscience Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Social Decision Making

According to the social intelligence hypothesis, the unusual enlargement of primate brains, including the human brain, was driven by the complexity of social decision-making primates face in their societies. Social decision-making is fundamentally more complex due to the recursive nature of social reasoning. This chapter begins with the review of game theory and illustrates how game theory has transformed neuroscience research on social decision-making. Some of the topics covered include the supposed death of game theory, altruism and its dark side, cooperation, the theory of the mind, the prisoner’s dilemma, the recursive mind, and the social brain.

scholarly journals Age and sex differences in oxytocin and vasopressin V1a receptor binding densities in the rat brain: focus on the social decision-making network

2016 ◽  
Vol 222 (2) ◽  
pp. 981-1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline J. W. Smith ◽  
Max L. Poehlmann ◽  
Sara Li ◽  
Aarane M. Ratnaseelan ◽  
Remco Bredewold ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Rat Brain ◽  
Receptor Binding ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
V1a Receptor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Vasopressin V1a Receptor ◽  
Social Decision Making ◽  
Age And Sex
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