Social overshadowing: Revisiting cue-competition in social interactions.

ABSTRACT: In a large variety of contexts, it is essential to use the available information to extract patterns and behave accordingly. When it comes to social interactions for instance, the information gathered about interaction partners across multiple encounters (e.g., trustworthiness) is crucial in guiding one's own behavior (e.g., approach the trustworthy and avoid the untrustworthy), a process akin to trial-by-trial learning. Building on associative learning and social cognition literatures, the present research adopts a domain-general approach to learning and explores whether the principles underlying associative learning also govern learning in social contexts. In particular, we examined whether overshadowing, a well-established cue-competition phenomenon, impacts learning of the cooperative

SUBMITTER: Telga M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10482779 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature